German President to visit Indonesia

Mon, 29 Jan 2001, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA (JP): German President Johannes Rau is to visit
Indonesia in February, the foreign information office at the
Indonesian foreign ministry said in a statement here on Friday.

The statement said that Rau would visit Indonesia from Feb. 19
through Feb. 22 to strengthen bilateral ties between the two
countries.

After meeting with President Abdurrahman Wahid, Rau is
scheduled to visit Yogyakarta, Surabaya and Balikpapan in East
Kalimantan.

Karl Carstens was the last German president to visit Indonesia
in 1984.

In November, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer met with
Abdurrahman in Jakarta.

Rau will become the third foreign top state official to visit
Indonesia this year after Indian prime minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee and Brazilian president Fernando Hendrique Cardoso.
(byg)

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