WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) – Australia has assured Washington that U.S. technology will be safe under a plan to supply it with nuclear power submarines in a tripartite deal also including Britain, Canberra’s ambassador to the United States said on Thursday.

Speaking to a U.S. think tank, Arthur Sinodinos also said that when details of the so-called AUKUS submarine deal are announced in mid-March, people would see there had been a “genuine trilateral solution.”

(Reporting by David Brunnstrom, Kirsty Needham and Michale Martina; Editing by Chris Reese)

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