EU mission to visit Maluku

Sun, 28 Jan 2001 | Source: AFP

THE HAGUE (AFP): Dutch Foreign Minister Jozias van Aartsen said Friday that a European Union delegation would probably visit Indonesia's troubled Maluku islands on Feb. 10, the Dutch news agency ANP reported.

The delegation would follow an EU humanitarian mission in October to the Malukus, where more than 5,000 people have been killed in clashes between Muslims and Christians since January 1999.

Indonesia is a former Dutch colony, and the Netherlands is home to a large population of Malukan origin.

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