New York: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been snubbed from Donald Trump’s official schedule of meetings in New York, leaving him to compete for a handshake with the US president at a reception with more than 100 other world leaders.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the president’s schedule at the United Nations would include bilateral meetings with the UN Secretary-General and the presidents of Ukraine, Argentina and the European Union.

Trump will also attend a multilateral meeting with the leaders of an array of Middle Eastern countries, Turkey, Pakistan and Indonesia.

But Australia and Albanese were omitted from the schedule, despite earlier suggestions from both sides that a bilateral meeting was possible on the sidelines of the summit.

The Australian gov

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