Wed, 05 Mar 2003

Megawati cancels participation in OIC emergency summit: President Megawati Soekarnoputri has canceled her plan to join the emergency summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference in Doha, scheduled to begin on Wednesday. The President has assigned foreign minister Hassan Wirayuda to attend the meeting on Iraq, which starts on Wednesday. No official statement has been issued to explain why Megawati changed her plans. Megawati had expressed her intention to join the summit as soon as she received the invitation at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Kuala Lumpur last week. Hassan and his entourage left Jakarta for Doha on Tuesday-- JP