---------------------------------------------------------- Live and work in the USA legally: Register for the GREEN CARD LOTTERY! Visit http://www.us-immigration.org -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 Indonesia Daily News Online http://www.indo-news.com/ Free Email @KotakPos.com visit: http://my.kotakpos.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------- The Straits Times Interactive, July 25, 2000 Beijing backs Jakarta stance FOREIGN INTERVENTION JAKARTA -- Visiting Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao yesterday gave Beijing's support to Indonesia's rejection of any foreign troop intervention in restoring law and order in the riot-hit Maluku islands. ""We are confident that the government and people of Indonesia have the full capability with their own efforts to rationally and properly settle those problems,'' he said at a private seminar. ""No foreign and external forces should interfere.'' The Maluku clashes have claimed some 4,000 lives and seen half a million people driven from their homes in the past 18 months. President Abdurrahman Wahid has ruled out the need for the foreign troops in the Malukus and officials have repeatedly stated that Jakarta is capable of quelling the violence. ""We, in the past and present and also in the future, will always support the Indonesian government and people to safeguard state sovereignty and territorial integrity,'' Mr Hu said. Earlier, after meeting his counterpart Megawati Sukarnoputri, he said both sides agreed to improve ties and to support each other's territorial integrity. Both also witnessed the signing of a bilateral agreement aimed at ""preventing crime involving the two countries.'' Ms Megawati said the agreement was in line with efforts to uphold the rule of law and ""should help us build our image as a nation based on law''.--AFP ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 26 Jul 2000 jam 09:02:54 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
