November 02, 2007
Source: MFA
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INDONESIA PREPARES FOR UN SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENCY
Indonesia as Non Permanent Member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) period 2007-2008, starts its term for the UN Security Council’s Presidency on November 2007. Indonesia will use its Presidency (it also held its UNSC Presidency in 1996) to show the progress and changes it has been achieved on its role in promoting world‘s peace and security. The main mandate of the President of the Security Council is to serve and facilitate as well as to bridge the interest of all UNSC member countries to reach consensus and to produce positive and practical resolutions. Therefore, this Presidency’s mandate should be carried out proactively and prudently to ensure that every discussion on the issues discussed in UNSC is proceeded with full awareness and appreciation, so that it will bring good quality resolution that can answer the problem according to the reality on the ground. In order to overcome challenges on the UNSC’s role that has been widely criticized as only able to deliver resolution without action and clear outcomes, Indonesia will try to focus on the quality rather than the quantity of the outcomes that will be produced by UNSC during Indonesia’s presidency. Within the period of January – October 2007, each of the UNSC Presidents, except the US and China, has initiated the open debate on the Ministerial level with specific thematic issues (during its presidency, Slovakia initiated Open Debate on Security Sector Reform (SSR)). Through this thematic debate hopefully it will create a mechanism that can ensure the continuity of the discussion without necessarily limited by Indonesia’s Presidency in the UNSC. Besides that, the most important thing is to produce concrete and viable outcomes such as in the form of Presidential Statement. In this regard, Indonesia is preparing to introduce the thematic issue about the role that can be played by regional organization in maintaining international peace and security. The improvement in the role of regional organization, in the context of Chapter VIII of the UN Charter, can reduce the burden of the UN in maintaining international peace and security and at the same time reducing the disparity between international consensus and regional reality. Regarding this regional organizations’ role, Indonesia will bring the perspective from the Asia-Pacific region. Therefore in its national capacity as the member of the UNSC, Indonesia will present its exposition on the Asia Pacific perspective on the debate, including lesson learned and best practices from ASEAN. Open debate can also be used as an opportunity for the UNSC’s member countries, regional and sub regional organizations to share their experiences how to improve cooperation between the UN and those regional organizations. Therefore we can expect the result will be more concrete and different from the deliberation of the similar themes that have been brought up during the previous UNSC open debates. In its concept paper, Indonesia will raise the issues of preventive diplomacy, sharing of norms, conflict resolution, institution building, regional order in the making, regional peacekeeping and confidence building measure by taking into consideration the experience of CBMs in South China Sea and Straits of Malacca. Presidential statement produced can contain the best practices in the role and cooperation between international organizations and the role of the UN for international peace. In this regards, ASEAN can be emphasized as regional order which is quite successful in giving real contribution for the construction of peace in the region through its initiatives and cooperation. In that open debate, the SC will also invite some other regional organizations including ASEAN, African Union, and Organization of American States. Besides organizing the open debate, Indonesia is also planning other initiative of activities that has been organized within a work program during its presidency in UNSC on November, as below:
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