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Article: VICE FOREIGN MINISTER IS NON-POLITICAL POSITION : FM.
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- ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)
- Article date:
- March 24, 2008
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Jakarta, March 24 (ANTARA): Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said the newly-created post of vice foreign minister was a structural echelon-I, and thus, not a political job."The post is not a political position but constitutes a post to be filed by an echelon-I official," the minister told House Commission I which deals with foreign affairs at a hearing here on Monday.Wirajuda said the post was created in line with Presidential Regulations No. 20 and 21 / 2008 which constituted a revision of Presidential Regulation No. 9 / 2005 on the status, tasks, functions and work mechanism of the Ministry of Foreign Affiars.The revision, which was done to support the ...