JAKARTA. Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa and his Australian counterpart, Julie Bishop, held a meeting at the former's office in Jakarta on Thursday in a bid to repair relations, which have been severely damaged by recent allegations of spying by Canberra. After the two-hour meeting, Bishop confirmed that the Australian government had agreed to the six-point road map, laid out by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Nov. 26, as a precondition toward normalizing the relationship between the two nations. “We note the steps set out by President Yudhoyono that must be taken in order to normalize the relationship, and of course we agree to those steps,” Bishop said during a joint press conference with Marty.
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JAKARTA. Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa and his Australian counterpart, Julie Bishop, held a meeting at the former's office in Jakarta on Thursday in a bid to repair relations, which have been severely damaged by recent allegations of spying by Canberra. After the two-hour meeting, Bishop confirmed that the Australian government had agreed to the six-point road map, laid out by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Nov. 26, as a precondition toward normalizing the relationship between the two nations. “We note the steps set out by President Yudhoyono that must be taken in order to normalize the relationship, and of course we agree to those steps,” Bishop said during a joint press conference with Marty.