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# What to Know About the Asylum Seeker Standoff on Manus Island

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## Transcript

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As you know, we have an arrangement with the United States, whereby a substantial number, 1, 250 can subject to the United States vigorous vetting. They resettled in the United States and we are pursuing those as arrangements at the moment. That is our committment. We wanna Pursue those, conclude those arrangements and then in the wake of that, obviously, we can consider otherwise. So the priority now is the U. S. arrangement.

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