Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull reacts as he walks with officials and security personnel to a media conference in central Sydney, Australia, August 20, 2017. Picture taken August 20, 2017. REUTERS/David Gray
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Wednesday the first group of about 50 men and woman held in two controversial detention centres for asylum-seekers on remote Pacific islands will be resettled in the United States within weeks.
The comments mark the first official timetable for when the United States will begin resettling up to 1,250 people held in Australian-run centres on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus island as part of a refugee swap deal struck by former U.S. President Barack Obama late last year.
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