Kim Dae-jung here for two-day visit

Tue, 28 Nov 2000, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA (JP): South Korean President Kim Dae-jung arrived here
on Monday for a two-day official visit.

Kim arrived at Halim Perdanakusuma airport on board a Korean
Airlines Boeing-747 and was welcomed by President Abdurrahman
Wahid.

Also present at the airport were, among others, foreign
minister Alwi Shihab, coordinating ministers Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono and Rizal Ramli, National Police chief Gen. Surojo
Bimantoro and the Indonesian Military chief Adm. Widodo A.S.

Kim is due to receive a courtesy call from Vice President
Megawati Soekarnoputri later on Monday before attending an
official welcoming banquet at the state palace.

Kim and Abdurrahman are scheduled to hold talks at the Merdeka
Palace on Tuesday and both are expected to witness the signing of
bilateral agreements on cultural cooperation and extradition by
Alwi and his South Korean counterpart Lee Joung-binn.

Kim is scheduled to hold a joint press conference with
Abdurrahman later on Tuesday. (byg)

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