Int'l meeting at Habibie Center

Int'l meeting at Habibie Center

JAKARTA: Indonesia will host a preparatory meeting of the
Interaction Council (IC) congress held to discuss peace and
religious issues following the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the
United States.

The meeting will be held at the Habibie Center on March 11 and
March 12. Former president B.J. Habibie is a member of the
international organization that groups former heads of government
from around the world.

"The meeting is aimed at preventing further clashes of
civilization through religious cooperation in the world," the
center's executive, Muladi, said on Friday after a meeting with
President Megawati Soekarnoputri.

He said that Habibie, former Australian prime minister Malcolm
Fraser and former Ghana president Jerry John Rowlings would be
among the 30 heads of state slated to attend the Jakarta meeting.

Muladi, a former minister of justice, said that Megawati would
receive the meeting's participants at the State Palace.--JP