AUT: LL:ART:Indonesia cancels security pact with Australia

[pmargin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Wright)]

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>*Indonesia cancels security pact with Australia
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>As tensions escalate between Australia and Indonesia over East
>Timor Jakarta has cancelled a key defence agreement with Australia.
>
>Indonesia announced today it was cancelling the agreement signed in
>1995 which Australia heralded at the time as a major defence
>initiative.
>
>Security Minister Faisal Tanjung announced the move, saying it was
>in response to Canberra's attitude and actions leading up the
>United Nations' decision to dispatch peacekeepers to East Timor.
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>The 1995 agreement, signed by then Prime Minister Paul Keating,
>allowed for information-sharing in relation to perceived mutual
>threats.
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>Minister Tanjng said Canberra's actions are no longer perceived as
>consistent with the spirit and letter of the agreement.
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>Australia recently announced it was reviewing its defence relations
>with Indonesia.
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>Tensions between the two nations have escalated in recent weeks
>over Jakarta's failure to contain the violence in East Timor.
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