UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged Malcolm Turnbull to reconsider Australia's controversial policy of turning back asylum-seeker boats.
The UN chief met with the prime minister on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit in Kuala Lumpur before Mr Turnbull returned to Canberra for a sitting of parliament.
According to a UN note of the meeting released on Monday, Mr Ban "expressed concern over the detention conditions in Australia's offshore processing centres and encouraged the prime minister to reconsider Operation Sovereign Borders".
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