Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08JAKARTA747
2008-04-15 07:42:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Jakarta
Cable title:
NONPROLIFERATION -- GOI ON UNSC 1540 COMMITTEE
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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).
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
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