Soeharto receives credentials

Soeharto receives credentials

JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto received letters of
credentials from the new Indian and Norwegian ambassadors at a
ceremony at the Merdeka Palace yesterday.

Before being posted to Jakarta, Sudhir T. Devare was his
country's first ambassador to Ukraine where he served from 1992
until recently, according to the Indian embassy. He was also
concurrently ambassador to Armenia and Georgia.

Between 1985 and 1989 Devare, who joined the Indian foreign
service in 1964, was ambassador to South Korea.

In his speech after receiving credentials from Norwegian
Ambassador Jan Wessel Hegg, the President said as oil producing
countries Indonesia and Norway should join hands in the effort to
stabilize oil prices.

He said the ideal oil prices are those which do not inflict
losses on the producing countries and do not burden the buying
ones.(tis)