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