Amien meets PM Howard

Amien meets PM Howard

CANBERRA (ANTARA): People's Consultative Assembly (MPR)
Chairman Amien Rais, who is on a two-day visit to Australia
beginning Wednesday, met with Australian Prime Minister John
Howard here Wednesday.

The MPR chief and Prime Minister Howard discussed matters
related to the Indonesian and Australia bilateral relations, next
to the recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC)
building and the Pentagon respectively in New York and Washington
DC, the United States.

Speaking to ANTARA after receiving Amien, Prime Minister
Howard hoped that the international communities would maintain
tolerance toward Muslim believers amid heightening campaign
against the terrorist groups responsible for the recent attacks
in the United States.

He said the recent tragedy in the United States should not
justify the prevailing notion that all Islamic countries were to
blame for the recent terrorist attacks.