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Britain ready to resume arms exports to Indonesia.

Jakarta Post

| August 29, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 1999 PT Bina Media Tenggara. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

JAKARTA (JP): Britain is ready to resume sales of weapons to Indonesia, saying that it has accepted the assurances from the Indonesian Military (TNI) that these arms would not be used for internal repression, including in Aceh.

"The assurances they (TNI) gave us are reliable," visiting Foreign Minister Ben Bradshaw said at a media briefing held at the British Council to wind up his three-day visit.

Britain, traditionally a major supplier of military hardware to Indonesia, was in the middle of delivering several of its Hawk jets when the European Union imposed an arms embargo in September 1999 in protest against Jakarta's handling of East Timor.

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