Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Working with partners is essential to shaping our region for Australia's foreign policy. AUKUS will complement our network of partnerships with ASEAN, with the Pacific, with our European partners and with the growing Quad. It is a partnership that seeks to engage, not to exclude. We look for opportunities to enable and empower rather than control or coerce. Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States are committed to strengthening our partnership with ASEAN and to deepening collaboration with our partners in Europe, including on the European Union's new Indo-Pacific strategy. We understand—and have said clearly that we understand—France's disappointment that we are not proceeding with the Attack class program. We place great value on our relationship with France and we look forward to continuing to work with France on our many shared interested, including in the Indo-Pacific.