France, Indonesia call for Israeli-Palestinian progress as Macron visits

France and Indonesia called Wednesday for progress on “mutual recognition” between Israel and the Palestinians at a key meeting next month as Emmanuel Macron visited Jakarta, bringing the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation into his diplomatic efforts.

It came as Paris and Jakarta signed a series of cooperation agreements, with Macron seeking to deepen trade and defence ties with Southeast Asia’s largest economy on a three-country tour promoting France as a balancing power between…