Flamboyan, Jakarta – The head of the European Union’s Troika Delegation, Bernard Bot, said on Thursday October 28 that they were interested in visiting Aceh and West Papua.

Indonesia, according to foreign minister Hassan Wirajuda, understands the EU’s wish to visit the two conflict prone provinces. “They want to know about the latest developments in the two provinces”, he said.

According to Bot, their planned visit is intend to understand developments in the situation in these two provinces. “The relationship which we and Indonesia wish to develop includes issues of political and human rights”, he said.

Wirajuda said that Aceh and West Papua have never closed to international visits. “In Aceh, we received representatives from the International Red Cross to determine [the deployment] of their teams”, he said.

[Translated by James Balowski.]