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Article: RI TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL ONLY WHEN PALESTINIAN STATE ESTABLISHED: FOREIGN MINISTER.
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- ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)
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- November 29, 2007
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Washington, D.C., Nov. 29 (ANTARA): Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Hassan Wirajuda said Indonesia would recognize and open diplomatic ties with Israel only when a Palestinian state has been established.
"When the Palestinians, through a negotiation process , can establish an independent Palestinian state, then we will recognize and open diplomatic ties with Israel," Wirajuda told the Indonesian press here on Wednesday.
The minister said his presence at the Annapolis Conference which was also attended by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert did not mean that Indonesia intended to establish ties with Israel because it would do so only on certain ...