INDONESIA RESPONSE TO CTBT ARTICLE XIV CONFERENCE

UNCLAS JAKARTA 001570 SENSITIVE SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR T - J JOSEPH, ISN/MNSA - T RAY AND A LIEBOWITZ, EAP, EAP/MTS, EAP/MLS, EAP/RSP E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL PARM KTBT ID SUBJECT: INDONESIA RESPONSE TO CTBT ARTICLE XIV CONFERENCE DEMARCHE AND MEETING REQUEST REF: STATE 95946 (NOTALL) ¶1. (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. ¶2. (U) Deputy Pol/C discussed reftel points with Roy Soemirat, Director of the Nuclear Weapons Section of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) Directorate for International Security and Disarmament. Soemirat said that, like the United States, Indonesia places high importance on the Article XIV Conference as a means of moving multilateral nonproliferation cooperation forward. Dep Pol/C conveyed reftel expression of thanks for Indonesia's public declaration of its intention to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty following U.S. ratification. In response, Soemirat said Indonesia agrees that such public statements are useful to create momentum for ratification by other Annex 2 countries that have yet to ratify. ¶3. (SBU) Soemirat said the GOI welcomes the request for bilateral talks in New York on the margins of the Article XIV Conference at the Under Secretary level, but that it can not yet confirm who will participate. The Jakarta delegation to the conference is scheduled to be led by Ambassador Rezlan Ishar Jenie, DEPLU Director General for Multilateral affairs. Ambassador Jenie is currently in Vienna for the IAEA General Conference and may travel to New York directly from there. Soemirat suggested Indonesia's UN Mission would be able to coordinate the bilateral meeting request. OSIUS