JAKARTA (JP): The government rejected on Friday a United States call for countries to sever diplomatic relations with Saddam Hussein's regime and said it would not ask Iraqi diplomats to leave.
"There's no need for that," foreign ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa told a press conference, while adding that a third country should not tell Indonesia how to conduct its relations with foreign missions.
"That issue is something to be decided by the host country and the related country," he was quoted by AFP as saying.