New Foreign Minister in mission to US and Japan, Sen Lam with Richard Tanter, ABC, 24 January 2008
“I think that the Bush administration is well aware of the political realities of its allies around the world. On the other hand Mr Smith will be at pains to point out to the Bush administration that Australia is really only removing one part of its really quite broad deployment in Iraq. Both Australia and Japan have nuclear cooperation agreements with the Indonesian government and high on (Foreign Minister Smith’s Tokyo) agenda there will be the two government’s approaches to the Indonesian government’s proposal about a Muria peninsula nuclear power station in central Java. ”