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Mon, 07/07/2008 - 15:25
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YUDHOYONO TO HOLD TALKS WITH BADAWI

Kuala Lumpur, July 7 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to hold talks with Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi here on Monday.

The meeting will take place at the Hilton Hotel in Kuala Lumpur where a D-8 (group of eight developing countries) summit is going on.

Yudhoyono and Badawi will discuss a number of issues related to enhancement of cooperation between their two countries.

Following the bilateral talks, the two leaders will inaugurate an eminent persons group (EPG) which will be made up of seven members from each of the two countries.

The Indonesian side will be represented by Gen (ret) Try Sutrisno, former vice president, Ali Alatas, former foreign minister, Quraisy Shihab, former religious affairs minister, Des Alwi, former foreign ministry official, Musni Umar, lecturer at the University of Indonesia (UI) and chairman of the Institute for Social Empowerment and Democracy (Insed), Maria Purenti Sri Suniarti, lecturer at UI and chief of the Pudentia Verbal Tradition Association, and Wahyuni Bahar, deputy chief of the Permanent Committee on International Multilateral Economic Cooperation and Trade of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin).

The EPG will be tasked with enhancing cooperation between the two nations in all fields, including issues related to migrant workers, illegal logging, culture, and border areas.

President Yudhoyono is here for a two-day visit among others to attend the D-8 summit. From Malaysia, he will fly to Japan on Tuesday for a group of eight industrialized nations (G-8) summit.

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