Indonesia summons Aussie envoy over senator’s racist remarks
Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi says she called ambassador Gary Quinlan to her office to convey the Muslim-majority country's 'strong condemnation' of Queensland Senator Fraser Anning's controversial comments. – EPA pic, March 18, 2019.
INDONESIA summoned Canberra’s ambassador today after an Australian senator blamed last week’s mosque attacks by a white supremacist in New Zealand on immigration. Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said she had called ambassador Gary Quinlan to her office to convey the Muslim-majority country’s “strong condemnation” of Queensland Senator Fraser Anning’s controversial comments.
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