Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled next week to visit Iran to foster bilateral ties and then Senegal to attend the 11th Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Summit.
A third country, most likely Mozambique, is said to be on the roster as well, major newspaper The Jakarta Post said in its website Monday, quoting a source at the presidential office.
The overseas trip will be the president's second this year, after he attended the 50th anniversary of Indonesia-Malaysia diplomatic relations in Malaysia in early January.
The president will leave Jakarta on March 10 for Tehran.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Indonesia in May 2006, offering economic deals worth over 4 billion U.S. dollars in the oil and gas sector. The Iran-Indonesia Joint Economic Cooperation was created in 1998.
After the two-day Iran visit, Yudhoyono is slated to visit Dakar to attend the two-day 11th OIC Summit, which will be open on March 13, 2008.
The 57-member OIC summit will be preceded by a senior officials meeting and a foreign ministers meeting from March 8-11.
It's not clear when the President will return home, given the plans to visit a third country.
Source:Xinhua
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