NONPROLIFERATION -- GOI ON UNSC 1540 COMMITTEE

C O N F I D E N T I A L JAKARTA 000747 SIPDIS SIPDIS DEPT FOR EAP, EAP/MTS, T, PM, ISN, ISN/CIP (T.WUCHTE) NSC FOR E.PHU E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/15/2018 TAGS: PREL UNSC KNNP ID SUBJECT: NONPROLIFERATION -- GOI ON UNSC 1540 COMMITTEE PROPOSAL REF: A. JAKARTA 742 ¶B. STATE 34968 Classified By: Pol/C Joseph Legend Novak, reasons 1.4(b+d). ¶1. (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia still has questions about extending the mandate of the committee that reports on member-state implementation of domestic controls to prevent the spread of WMD technology, as required by UNSCR 1540. As reason for their hesitancy, GOI officials cite possible new approaches on the matter and the delay in Indonesia's uneven implementation of measures recommended by UNSCR 1540. END SUMMARY. ¶2. (SBU) Poloff spoke further with Andy Rachmianto, Deputy Director for Disarmament and International Security at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),on April 14 regarding the P3 proposal (U.S., UK, France) to extend the 1540 Committee's mandate. Rachmianto said this was the first he had heard of the proposal, which would need further GOI review. ¶3. (SBU) In regard to the P3 proposal's call for a comprehensive review of the status of 1540 implementation by the end of 2009, Rachmianto said this would come a year and a half into the new mandate. Because it could well generate some new approaches, it might be better to have this point fall closer to a new extension of the mandate. In that case, it would make sense to renew the mandate for two years in April 2008 and then again in April 2010, after the 2009 review. ¶4. (C) In commentary on the 1540 process generally, Rachmianto noted that Indonesia served as Vice Chair of the Committee, but was not a participant in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Indonesia had no formal action plan, as recommended under the 1540 process, yet was party to all WMD regimes and continued to develop its nonproliferation regime based on those commitments, not necessarily as a result of the 1540 process. Indonesia had recently passed national implementing legislation regarding the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and had just completed the drafting of similar legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC),which would soon be submitted to the national legislature (DPR). It intended to do the same regarding nuclear nonproliferation soon. HUME