Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian and Dutch governments have agreed to strive for the achievement of a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip where more than 900 Palestinians have been killed during three weeks of Israeli military aggression.
"At a meeting between the Indonesian and Dutch foreign ministers both states urged the declaration of a cease-fire in Gaza," Retno LP Marsudi, the Indonesian foreign affairs ministry`s director general of American-European affairs, said here on Wednesday.
Both countries would continue to push the United Nations to work for the realization of a cease-fire in the war-torn area, she said.
Like a number of countries in the world, the Dutch government also expressed concern over the Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip which had caused a humanitarian crisis, she said.
Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Jacques Marce Verhagen is on a visit in Indonesia from January 13 to 17, 2009 to strengthen bilateral relations between the two nations.
The Israeli military aggression in Gaza has killed more than 900 Palestinians, including women and children, and injured over 4,000 others.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to help stop the war in Gaza.
source:antara.co.id
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