Indonesia Will Encourage Compliance With Nuclear Treaty At The United Nations High School

Ambassador Umar Hadi (L) and Ambassador Tri Tharyat gave a press statement. (VOI / Fauzi)

JAKARTA - Indonesia will encourage the compliance of countries in the world to the nuclear agreement at the 2025 UN General Assembly which will be held this month.

The United Nations General Assembly (SMU) session this year officially opened on September 9. Meanwhile, High-level Week will be held on September 22-30.

"Indonesian delegates led directly by President Prabowo Subianto received 176 invitations to participate in meetings at various levels at the United Nations High School this time, outside of bilateral meetings," said Director General of Multilateral Cooperation of the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tri Tharyat.

"Regarding the meeting related to nuclear weapons, we will also attend and encourage countries to comply with nuclear-related agreements for peaceful purposes, and also refrain from using nuclear weapons," he explained in a press statement at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jakarta, Thursday, September 11.

"In addition, there will also be a meeting at the Security Council, later we will see

It is known, one of the agenda items of the United Nations High-level Week 2025 this time is "High-level Meeting to Commemorate and Promote the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons" which will be held on September 26.

Quoted from the United Nations website, realizing the global nuclear arsenal is a top priority for the division of UN weapons.

As of August this year, Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono has at least twice talked about nuclear weapons in international forums.

While attending the High Level Segment Conference on Disarmement in Geneva, Switzerland last February, Foreign Minister Sugiono emphasized that instead of securing security, nuclear weapons pose a threat.

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.

"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.

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

Conference on Disarmation (CD) 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, CD has negotiated and produced a number of related key agreements, namely the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT); Convention on the Commission 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 and on Their Destruction (CWC) and the latter in 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).

In July, Foreign Minister Sugiono said Indonesia was pushing for the synergy of nuclear weapons-free zones in various regions, when arms control was deemed stagnant, while attending the 58th SEANWFZ Commission (Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone) on the sidelines of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meetings/Post Ministerial Conference (AMM/PMC) at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center (KLC), Malaysia.

"We are facing a worrying landscape of global weapons cuts. The control of the arms is stagnant, nuclear weaponry is actually increasing, and the commitment of the nuclear weapons-owning country to NPT is weakening," said Foreign Minister Sugiono.

In this meeting of the SEANWFZ Commission, all ASEAN Foreign Ministers agreed to encourage the signing and ratification of the SEANWFZ Protocol by nuclear weapons-owning countries, welcome Timor-Leste's planned accession into the Treaty in October 2025, and propose a biennial resolution related to the SEANWFZ Treaty at the United Nations 80th General Assembly Session.

The SEANWFZ Commission is a key mechanism for ASEAN in keeping Southeast Asia free from nuclear threats, in line with the ideals of a peaceful and stable region.