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.