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INDONESIAN PRESIDENT VISITS SANTA CRUZ CEMETERY IN DILI
April 10, 2005 9:52pm Antara
Dili, Apr 9 (ANTARA) - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on
the final day of his two-day state visit in East Timor on Saturday visited
the Santa Cruz public cemetery and the Seroja heroes' cemetery in Dili.
East Timor's armed forces F-FDTL welcomed Yudhoyono with a military
salute on his arrival at the Santa Cruz cemetery.
President Yudhoyono laid a wreath and prayed at a house of prayer at
the cemetery. After that he proceeded to the Seroja cemetery for
Indonesian heroes around 500 meters away from Santa Cruz. On his way there
he shook hands with Balide elementary school children who had waited for
his arrival there since morning.
At the cemetery President Yudhoyono laid a wreath at the main monument
and prayed. Afterwards he visited the tomb of Major B Ginting, a member of
the army's special unit Kopassus who died in 1986 and then the tomb of
Captain Gostaf M, a member of the 611 Infantry Unit/ Navy who died on
December 15, 1987 where he also laid wreaths.
Later President Yudhoyono proceeded to a wall where the names of all
the Indonesian fighters buried in the cemetery had been inscribed. He then
put his hands on the wall and prayed for a while.
In his speech before the East Timorese parliament earlier Yudhoyono
expressed gratitude to the East Timorese government that had given easy
access to Indonesians who wished to visit the tombs of their relatives in
that country.
(THROUGH ASIA PULSE)
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EAST TIMORESE ARE INDONESIAN PEOPLE'S CLOSE RELATIVES, SAYS PRESIDENT
YUDHOYONO
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Dili, Apr 9 (ANTARA) - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
said here on Saturday the Indonesian people considered the East Timorese
as their closest relatives making the two nations and countries neighbours
who could not easily forget each other.
"As their closest brothers and neighbours the Indonesian people
wish to see East Timor achieve progress and glory," he said in his
speech in East Timor's parliament.
He said "we wish to develop cooperation and help each other so
that the two nations can rise together for a brighter future."
"I share Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri's view that the relations
between the two nations must be developed based on future rather than past
outlooks," he said.
To develop brotherly and neighbourly relations Indonesia and East Timor
have already made a number of common agendas and some of them had even
already been jointly carried out.
Among the agendas that had not as yet been finished are settlement of
problems on refugees, assets, pay rights of former Indonesian civil
servants, military and police members and border securrity.
"We have to be grateful and admitted that we have already settled
most of the problems jointly," Yudhoyono said.
"If in 1999 the number of East Timorese refugees staying in West
Timor reached 285,000 now it has dropped to only around 16,000. I am
convinced the problem could finally be settled correctly and wisely,"
he said.
Yudhoyono hoped the East Timor government would continue seeking
efforts to immediately finish the legal system for the problems.
Regarding border problems the two countries had so far settled 96
percent of their land border problems.
Indonesia has also helped smoothen sea transportation between Oecusse
and Dili while land access between the East Timor's conclave and other
East Timorese regions would be open soon.
The two countries have also prepared immigration posts on the border to
ease land transportation between the two countries.
(THROUGH ASIA PULSE)
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