SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull sought to allay concerns on Monday that a deal to send refugees from remote Pacific camps to the United States could be scuppered by President-elect Donald Trump. Canberra sends asylum-seekers who try to reach Australia by boat to detention facilities on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and Nauru. Australia’s arrangement with the Obama administration followed Turnbull in September saying he was ready to take more refugees from Central America. While Turnbull spoke to Trump by phone soon after the shock election win last week, he said he did not bring up the refugee issue. “Until January 20 when Donald Trump is inaugurated, the president is Barack Obama and we deal with one administration at a time,” he told Channel Nine.

Source: Manila Times November 14, 2016 12:49 UTC