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Foreign minister Penny Wong has called the Gaza ceasefire a “singular achievement” by Donald Trump as the first hostages were returned to Israel on Monday.
Speaking to ABC News last night, Wong called it an “extraordinarily moving” day and one of immense relief for people in Israel and Australia.
This is a singular achievement by President Trump. Only the president of the United States could bring this about. And as I said on Friday, he deserves enormous congratulations … it is an enormous achievement. We haven’t seen this sort of progress in the Middle East for some time. And he’s brought, you know, this conflict to a pause and hopefully to an end, and has a pathway to peace that he’s been so critical in articulating.
We haven’t been asked, so I’m not going to get ahead of myself. And what I have said all along is … we want to play our part in contributing momentum to peace. That’s how we’ve sought to approach these matters for a long time.
