(CANBERRA, Australia) — The Australian foreign minister on Tuesday rejected the United Nations refugee agency’s allegation that her government reneged on a deal to resettle some refugees who attempted to reach Australia by boat. The UNHCR said on Monday it had agreed to facilitate a deal in which the United States would take up to 1,250 refugees among more than 2,000 asylum seekers languishing in immigration camps on the impoverished Pacific island nations of Papua New Guinea and Nauru “on the clear understanding that vulnerable refugees with close family ties in Australia would ultimately be allowed to settle there.” U.N.