Hassan meets top U.S. official

Hassan meets top U.S. official

WASHINGTON: Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda met
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage on Friday, and
discussed Iraq, among other issues, as Washington's embassy in
Jakarta still closed by a security scare.

Wirayuda lunched with Armitage, as Secretary of State Colin
Powell was at the United Nations in New York, drumming up support
for a harsh Security Council resolution critical of Iraq.

"The issues included Iraq, US relations with the Islamic
world, the conflict in Aceh, counterterrorism, the ad hoc
tribunal in East Timor and norms for civil military relations,"
said a State Department official on condition of anonymity.

The State Department official was unable to say if Armitage
and Wirayuda discussed the embassy closure. --AFP