ASIATODAY.ID, GENEVA – Indonesia highlights global conditions that are increasingly fragile and increasingly worrying, where there is increasingly sharp strategic competition between countries, there are setbacks related to disarmament commitments, the expansion of nuclear weapons programs, increasing dependence on nuclear doctrine, and the increasing risk of unprecedented nuclear conflict and accidents.
“Nuclear weapons do not guarantee security, but instead pose a threat,” stressed the Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sugiono when speaking at the High Level Segment Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, 24 February 2025.
Sugiono emphasized that Indonesia, under the leadership of President Prabowo, will continue to make efforts to create global peace and security, including by advancing disarmament efforts.
Therefore, Indonesia encourages the international community to immediately take concrete steps to restore global stability, including by strengthening the global framework for disarmament.
Sugiono believes that the world actually has the ability/power and responsibility to change this condition.
“We must take firm steps to promote disarmament,” he added.
Minister Sugiono urged the Conference on Disarmament to carry out its mandate in revitalizing the global disarmament architecture. In this case, Sugiono emphasized the importance of advancing nuclear disarmament negotiations, establishing legal instruments for security guarantees (negative security assurance), strengthening Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones, and strengthening anti-nuclear test norms.
Meanwhile, the Conference on Disarmament is the only multilateral forum mandated by the UN General Assembly to negotiate key agreements related to disarmament. Membership of the Conference on Disarmament consists of 65 countries, namely 5 permanent member countries of the UN Security Council and 60 countries with significant military capabilities, including Indonesia.
Since its formation in 1978, the Conference on Disarmament has negotiated and produced a number of related key agreements, namely the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (BWC), the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (CWC), and the last in the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).
Minister Sugiono attended the High-Level Segment Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland on February 24 2025, to emphasize Indonesia’s commitment to multilateral efforts in disarmament, as well as continuing to contribute to world peace efforts. (AT Network)
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