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Article: DIN SYAMSUDDIN SKEPTICAL ABOUT ANNAPOLIS CONFERENCE.
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- ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)
- Article date:
- November 27, 2007
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Jakarta, Nov. 27 (ANTARA): The chairman of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization, Din Syamsuddin, said he was skeptical about the ongoing Annapolis Conference on the Palestine-Israel conflict because the US often had vested interests which were not neutral.
"About the Annapolis Conference, I am skeptical and doubtful because the venue is in the US and the initiatve was taken by the US which always has certain vested interests," Din told the press here on Tuesday.
However, he agreed that Palestine and Israel needed to have dialogs to create lasting peace in the Middle East.Din made the statement on the sidelines of a ...