New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern again offered Thursday to resettle 150 asylum seekers sent by Australia to offshore camps including one in Nauru, a Pacific island nation where leaders from both countries are set to meet next month.
Australia declined New Zealand's offer last November to take asylum seekers sent to Australian-run detention centers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, because the country was negotiating with the United States to accept 1,250 migrants.
About 250 people have left for the United States under an agreement made by the administration of former President Barack Obama, which President Donald Trump has called a "dumb deal."