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Anthony Albanese says Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan has written to him overnight maintaining that he won’t withdraw his bid to host the COP climate summit in 2026.

Australia has been pushing a joint bid with Pacific nations to secure COP in Adelaide next year. If Turkey does not budge and the issue isn’t resolved at the current COP30 summit in Brazil, COP31 will be hosted in the German city of Bonn.

Speaking in Sydney on Thursday, the PM said he believed the Pacific bid had greater support from the international community.

“President Erdogan has written to me in the last 24 hours. He is maintaining his position in response to Australia maintaining our position,” he said.

“We’ll continue to advocate for Australia to host the COP in partn

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