Clinton plans busy Aussie trip

Prime Minister Julia Gillard met with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2011. Picture: Herald Sun Source: AP

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Australia next week, joining up with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta for annual bilateral security and strategic talks, a US official said Friday.

Mrs Clinton leaves Sunday heading for Perth and the annual US-Australia meeting of ministers, where she will also meet with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Foreign Minister Bob Carr, a State Department statement said.

The Perth summit on November 14 comes after the arrival of US Marine and Air Force units to northern Australia, seen as evidence of an American "rebalance" towards the Pacific after a decade of ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

She will also travel to Adelaide to meet Australian business leaders as well as visit Techport Australia, a huge shipbuilding facility.

Australian newspapers also reported that Mrs Clinton, who has said she plans to step down at the end of her four-year term in January, would make a private trip to meet close friends in Adelaide.

The much-travelled top US diplomat then heads to Singapore on Friday to meet with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Foreign Minister Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

From Singapore, Mrs Clinton will join up with President Barack Obama in Thailand on his first foreign visit since he won a historic second term in Tuesday's presidential elections.

Mrs Clinton will join Mr Obama on November 18 for meetings with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck and other senior Thai officials "to underscore our strong alliance and discuss shared priorities and regional issues in advance of the ASEAN East Asia Summit," Ms Nuland said in the statement.

She will then accompany Mr Obama on his landmark trip to Burma on November 19, before heading with him to Cambodia for the US-ASEAN leaders meeting and the East Asia summit.

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