By IRNA
Kuala Lumpur : Iran’s Ambassador to Jakarta Behrouz Kamalvand conferred on Thursday with Indonesian Minister of Religious Affairs Maftuh Basyuni on expansion of cooperation between the two countries.
Since there are many Indonesian people wishing to pay pilgrimage to holy places in Iran or travel to Saudi Arabia for Hajj ritual via Iranian territory the Islamic Republic can be of great help in this regard.
Upcoming summit of Origination of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Senegal is regarded as a suitable opportunity to solve problems facing the Muslim world, he said.
The Indonesian minister, for his part, condemned the savage atrocities of the Zionist regime in Gaza Strip and expressed regret over the stands adopted by some Arab countries in dealing with the issue.
Indonesia with over 240 million people is the most populous Islamic country in the world.