28th September 2015: It has been reported that France had thrown its weight behind Indonesia'€s bid to secure visa-free access to the EU for its citizens, Indonesia'€s Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi said on Saturday. Retno asked for France'€s support in a closed meeting with her French counterpart, Laurent Fabius, at the 70th UN General Assembly in New York on Saturday. According to Retno, Fabius agreed to support Indonesia'€s bid after she presented him with several arguments. '€[Fabius] said he would support [us] because I showed him that from around 150,000 Indonesian tourists visiting Schengen area every year, the visa rejection rate is very small, only 1.1 percent. Meanwhile, cases of [Indonesian] migrants in Schengen countries are also very small,'€ she said. '€With this data, there'€s no more reason for Schengen countries to reject our proposal to get visa-free facilities,'€ she said.