Ali Alatas

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name = Ali Alatas


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birth_date = Birth date and age|1932|11|4|df=y
birth_place = Jakarta, Indonesia
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occupation = Diplomat
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Ali Alatas (born Jakarta, 4 November 1932) is an Indonesian diplomat of Hadhrami descent, [The Straits Times, June 1, 2007, Insight–Boosting links, 'software' to rekindle Arab ties, by Jeremy Au Yong] [ [http://www.aiys.org/webdate/gadr.html INTERVIEW: HAMID AL-GADRI] ] [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A30378-2003Jan8?language=printer Indonesia's Radical Arabs Raise Suspicions of Moderate Countrymen] ] who served as the country's foreign minister from 1988 to 1999.

In 2003, Alatas was appointed as the United Nations special envoy. He arrived in Myanmar on 18 August 2005 for a three-day-visit to negotiate the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. He is the first special envoy allowed into the country in more than a year.Fact|date=March 2007

References

External links

* [http://www.tokohindonesia.com/ensiklopedi/a/ali-alatas/index.shtml Profile at TokohIndonesia.com] (In Indonesian)