Indonesia’s President Megawati Sukarnoputri left Algiers on Sunday at the end of a four-day visit during which a bilateral oil deal was clinched, according to officials.
Megawati's Algerian counterpart Abdelaziz Bouteflika saw her off at the airport after they met for a third time earlier Sunday, according to AFP.
Her visit, the first by an Indonesian head of state to the north African country, saw the signing of a partnership agreement between the two countries' state oil firms, Sonatrach and Pertamina, to be followed soon by a one-year renewable contract under which Algiers will sell 900,000 barrels of oil per month to Indonesia.
Indonesia has up to now bought Algerian oil on the international market. In addition, the two countries' foreign ministers signed a cooperation agreement, and, at a dinner Thursday in Megawati's honor, Bouteflika called on closer cooperation against terrorism.
"The intensification of the fight against terrorism ... must not open the door to adventurism nor create an amalgam between the crimes of terrorist groups and Islam, a religion of peace, equality, tolerance and respect for human dignity," he said. (Albawaba.com)
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