But Indonesia has taken an adamant position that it will not accept foreign troops.
The same day he stated he "would no longer accept foreign troops in Afghanistan operating without a UN mandate."
This is a reference to the Philippine government agreeing to accept American troops on its territory to eliminate a local terrorist group.
She was the first in Southeast Asia, the region that has become the new focus, to agree to accept American troops.
The Serbs have repeatedly said they will not accept foreign troops in Kosovo because that would be be an infringement on their sovereignty.
Richard wasn't opposed to the concept of protection; in the past, he had accepted troops being with them.
The Afghans, he reminded reporters, were a nation that had never accepted foreign troops, Islamic or otherwise.
In such a situation, Yugoslavia would remain non-aligned, and it would not accept foreign troops of either alliance on its territory.
But Yugoslavia, as a sovereign state, "cannot accept foreign troops to occupy our land."