Encourage Distribution, Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono: Nuclear Weapons Don't Budget Security

Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono. (Source: Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

JAKARTA - Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono emphasized that instead of securing security, nuclear weapons pose a threat, while attending the High Level Segment Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday.

In his speech, Foreign Minister Sugiono expressed his concern over increasingly vulnerable global conditions, strategic competition between countries, a setback related to the commitment to weapons cuts, expansion of nuclear weapons programs, increasing dependence on nuclear doctrine, and increasing risks of conflict and nuclear accidents that we have never seen before.

"Nuclear weapons do not guarantee security, but instead become a threat," said Foreign Minister Sugiono in a statement from the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tuesday, February 25.

"Indonesia, under the leadership of President Prabowo, will continue to make efforts to create global peace and security, including by advancing weapons dismantling efforts," continued the Indonesian Foreign Minister.

Foreign Minister Sugiono further encouraged the international community to immediately take concrete steps to restore global stability, including by strengthening the global framework of weapons cuts.

Foreign Minister Sugiono believes the world has the ability, strength and responsibility to change this condition.

"We must take firm steps to encourage the removal of weapons," said Foreign Minister Sugiono.

On that occasion, the Indonesian Foreign Minister urged Conference on Disarmement to carry out its mandate in revitalizing the architecture of global weapons cuts.

The Indonesian Foreign Minister emphasized, among other things, the importance of advancing nuclear weapons reduction negotiations, establishing security security security security instrument, strengthening Nuclear Weapons Free Areas, and strengthening nuclear anti-trial norms.

The presence of the Indonesian Foreign Minister at the High Level Segment Conference on Disarmement reinforces Indonesia's commitment to multilateral efforts in weapons dismantling, and continues to contribute to world peace efforts.

It is known, Conference on Disarmement is the only multilateral forum mandated by the UN General Assembly to negotiate a key agreement related to gun cuts. CD membership consists of 65 countries, namely 5 Permanent member states of the UN DK and 60 countries with significant military capabilities, including Indonesia.

Since its formation in 1978, CDs have negotiated and produced a number of related key agreements, namely the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), Convention on the Development of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacterological (Biology) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (BWC), Convention on the Development of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons on Their Destruction (CWC) and the latter in 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).