---------------------------------------------------------- Visit Indonesia Daily News Online HomePage: http://www.indo-news.com/ Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 Free Email @KotakPos.com visit: http://my.kotakpos.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------- TO HASTEN INDONESIAN RECOVERY, ASEAN MUST INCREASE TRADE : PHILIPPINE FM Singapore, Feb 1 (ANTARA/AFP) - Philippine Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon on Tuesday called on ASEAN members to increase trade and investments in Indonesia in order to boost its recovery efforts. Amid Indonesia's fluid political situation, the "main problem" there remainded economic, Siazon told reporters. "Fo the ASEAN best solution is to have more trade with Indonesia, have more investment ... if and when we are asked individually or collectively to support a process, then certainly we will be prepared to help," he said, citing ASEAN's assistance to East Timor on the request of Jakarta and United Nations. Siazon was on an aofficial visit to Singapore where he met Prime Minister declined comment on Indonesia President Abdurrahmah Wahid's call on his Security Minister and former armed forces chief General Wiranto to resign. "The internal processes of the Indonesian government, like a decision by the President to request a minister to resign is something (in) which no ASEAN government would want to be involved," he said. Two reports released Monday, one by a domestic human rights inquiry and one from the United Nations, accused the Indonesian armed forces of direct involvement in the violence that destroyed East Timor after the territory voted last year for independence. The Association of South Asian Nations (ASEAN) groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Lamaysia, Myanmar, the Philippine, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Intra-regional trade is once more picking up after being stalled by the regional financial crisis which struck in mid-1997. Indonesia was among the countries hardest hit by the crisis, which helped force longstanding strongman Suharto out of office and has triggered unrest in various parts of the archipelago. (u.nn02/TB02) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 7 Feb 2000 jam 06:37:48 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
