Fed: Yudhoyono arrives in Australia

AAP General News (Australia)
04-03-2005
Fed: Yudhoyono arrives in Australia

CANBERRA, April 3 AAP - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has arrived in
Canberra for a three-day visit to Australia.

President Yudhoyono's visit, delayed for four days by the devastating Sumatran earthquake,
is only the third by an Indonesian leader in the past 30 years.

He was greeted at Canberra airport by Governor-General Michael Jeffery and Prime Minister
John Howard along with a military honour guard.

About 100 protesters lined the road from the airport but Mr Yudhoyono avoided seeing
them as he was whisked away in a car across the tarmac to another road, escaping the protesters
altogether.

Mr Yudhoyono will attend a state dinner at Government House later tonight where he
will be joined by Major General Jeffery, his wife Marlena, Deputy Prime Minister John
Anderson, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, Opposition Leader Kim Beazley and Defence
force chief Peter Cosgrove.

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