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60625
Thu, 05/14/2009 - 17:21
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RI, PNG AGREE TO HOLD ANNUAL MINISTERIAL-LEVEL MEETINGS
Manado, Indonesia, May 14 (ANTARA)- The Indonesian and Papua New Guinean (PNG) governments have agreed to hold ministerial level meetings annually to strengthen their bilateral cooperation in various fields, an Indonesian spokesman said.
"The two countries' leaders have agreed that their governments will hold ministerial-level meetings annually such as we have been doing so far with Malaysia and Australia," presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said here Thursday after Yudhoyono had received PNG Prime Minister Michael Somare.
Such cooperation would focus on the economic aspects and people-to-people contacts, Djalal said, adding that the two leaders also discussed problems affecting their countries' common borders.
"This (border issues) is a sensitive matter and it implies many challenges although bilateral cooperation to solve problems has so far run well especially in handling trans border matters," he said.
The Indonesian government had also agreed to accept the repatriation of some 708 Indonesian citizens who were now still staying in PNG, Djalal said.
He explained the Indonesian citizens in PNG who hailed from Papua and West Papua provinces had expressed their wish to return to Indonesia. ***
"The two countries' leaders have agreed that their governments will hold ministerial-level meetings annually such as we have been doing so far with Malaysia and Australia," presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said here Thursday after Yudhoyono had received PNG Prime Minister Michael Somare.
Such cooperation would focus on the economic aspects and people-to-people contacts, Djalal said, adding that the two leaders also discussed problems affecting their countries' common borders.
"This (border issues) is a sensitive matter and it implies many challenges although bilateral cooperation to solve problems has so far run well especially in handling trans border matters," he said.
The Indonesian government had also agreed to accept the repatriation of some 708 Indonesian citizens who were now still staying in PNG, Djalal said.
He explained the Indonesian citizens in PNG who hailed from Papua and West Papua provinces had expressed their wish to return to Indonesia. ***
