Ambassador Puzzled
(N-Z. Press Assn.— Copyright) CANBERRA, February 4. The Indonesian Ambassador to Australia and New Zealand, Major-General A. R. Kosasih, was puzzled by Australia’s decision to send combat troops Into Borneo. “I cannot understand this,” he said today. “Everyone was saying that the tension was lessening. Yet now the Australian Government Is sending in troops. 1 can’t understand it,” he added. General Kosasih said this move would only increase tension on the Malaysian dispute. Asked by reporters if he stood by what he said on his return to Australia from toplevel talks in Djakarta earlier this week, that Indonesia understood and respected Australia’s right to send forces to Malaysia, the Ambasador said: “Of course this is still a matter for the Australian Government to decide.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30667, 5 February 1965, Page 3
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