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| Bono meets Kevin Rudd at The Opera House to discuss aid for HIV sufferers. Picture: Marco Del Grande / The Sydney Morning Herald |
FOREIGN Minister Kevin Rudd has met with U2 frontman Bono to talk about poverty and aid.
A spokesman for Mr Rudd said the pair met at the Sydney Opera House today for about 45 minutes, along with Make History Poverty co-chairs Andrew Hewett and Tim Costello.
The rock star praised the government's development agenda, bipartisan support to reduce poverty globally and spoke about the challenge of global development and Australia's contribution, the spokesman said.
On Bono's agenda was an expansion of the Australian government's aid program and meeting Millennium Development goals set by the UN to reduce global poverty.
Mr Rudd praised Bono for his activism and the pair also spoke about developments in HIV globally, the spokesman said.
Mr Rudd told Sky News that Australia was committed to assisting the world's less fortunate.
"We've always had a view that when there's strife around the world we pitch in," he said.
U2, touring with rapper Jay-Z, begin the Australian leg of their tour in Melbourne on Wednesday.
They'll play two shows at Etihad Stadium before performing in Brisbane on December 8 and 9, Sydney on December 13 and 14 and Perth on December 18 and 19.
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