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12119
Fri, 07/11/2008 - 10:08
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GOVT HAS NO PLAN TO MOVE ITS EMBASSY IN KABUL
Jakarta, July 11 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government has no plan to move its embassy in Kabul following a suicide bomb attack on the adjacent Indian embassy early this week, a minister said.
"We still have no plan to move the Indonesian embassy because it is not easy to do, " Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said here on Thursday.
Neither was it easy to find a new location for the Indonesian embassy in a conflict-torn country like Afghanistan, he said.
"We are focusing on intensifying security (around the Indonesian embassy)," he said.
After all, the bomb attack was not meant to target the Indonesian embassy, he said.
Monday's bomb attack left at least 40 people dead and 141 others, including two Indonesian diplomats, injured.
The dead included five Afghan police officers guarding the Indonesian embassy.
The injured Indonesian diplomats were identified as Ahimsa Sukartono, chief of representatives operational affairs, and Abdul Mufti, second secretary of the Indonesian embassy.
Despite the bomb attack, the Indonesian embassy continues to perform its job as usual. However, all the activities are carried out in the Indonesian Guest House, about 20 meters from the embassy building which was 90 percent destroyed in the bomb attack.
"We still have no plan to move the Indonesian embassy because it is not easy to do, " Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said here on Thursday.
Neither was it easy to find a new location for the Indonesian embassy in a conflict-torn country like Afghanistan, he said.
"We are focusing on intensifying security (around the Indonesian embassy)," he said.
After all, the bomb attack was not meant to target the Indonesian embassy, he said.
Monday's bomb attack left at least 40 people dead and 141 others, including two Indonesian diplomats, injured.
The dead included five Afghan police officers guarding the Indonesian embassy.
The injured Indonesian diplomats were identified as Ahimsa Sukartono, chief of representatives operational affairs, and Abdul Mufti, second secretary of the Indonesian embassy.
Despite the bomb attack, the Indonesian embassy continues to perform its job as usual. However, all the activities are carried out in the Indonesian Guest House, about 20 meters from the embassy building which was 90 percent destroyed in the bomb attack.
