President Rau in Indonesia German President Johannes Rau has called the relation between Germany and Indonesia intensive and good. This was true in all areas, said Rau after his second meeting with Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid in the capital Jakarta. In their conversation they had also talked about the human rights and the situation in the trouble province East-Timor. These topics were met with reflectiveness, stressed Rau. He also commented on the latest American-British bomb attacks on targets near the Iranian capital Baghdad and dissociated himself from the action.
Conflicts ought to be solved by other means.
A military conflict ought to be the last resort, underlined the president. The federal states with an SPD government are going to support the drop-out programme planned by Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily. Schily said after a meeting of interior ministers in Mainz that they agreed on the usefulness of the programme. Bavaria and Saarland, too, will support the programme. The Union's parliamentary spokesperson for interior politics, Erwin Marschewski, however, said the programme was insufficient.