Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09JAKARTA455
2009-03-16 08:15:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Jakarta
Cable title:
ABKHAZIA/SOUTH OSSETIA -- URGING INDONESIA TO
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C O N F I D E N T I A L JAKARTA 000455
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TAGS: PREL PBTS ID GG
SUBJECT: ABKHAZIA/SOUTH OSSETIA -- URGING INDONESIA TO
AVOID RECOGNITION AND NOT TO LEND LEGITIMACY
REF: STATE 24186
Classified By: Pol/C Joseph L. Novak, reasons 1.4 (b+d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L JAKARTA 000455
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DEPT FOR EAP, EAP/MTS, EAP/MLS, EAP/RSP, EUR, EUR/CARC
NSC FOR E.PHU
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/16/2019
TAGS: PREL PBTS ID GG
SUBJECT: ABKHAZIA/SOUTH OSSETIA -- URGING INDONESIA TO
AVOID RECOGNITION AND NOT TO LEND LEGITIMACY
REF: STATE 24186
Classified By: Pol/C Joseph L. Novak, reasons 1.4 (b+d).
1. (C) SUMMARY: Mission has reviewed Department's points
related to Georgia with the GOI. Indonesia has no intention
of recognizing either Abkhazia or South Ossetia as
independent countries or lending legitimacy in any way to
their self-proclaimed status. END SUMMARY.
2. (C) Per reftel instructions, poloff urged Indonesia to
avoid any actions that would lend legitimacy to the breakaway
Georgian areas of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In a March 16
discussion with Cicilia Rusdiharini, Deputy Director for
American Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs
(DEPLU),poloff underscored that recognition of the
self-proclaimed republics was inconsistent with UN Security
Council Resolution 1808 and could exacerbate tensions in the
region.
3. (C) Rusdiharini responded that Indonesia fully respected
Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity and had no
plans to recognize either Abkhazia or South Ossetia.
4. (C) Per DEPLU's comments, the GOI is sensitive to any
international actions that might set a negative precedent for
Indonesia as a multi-ethnic state with a history of regional
independence struggles. Indonesia has so far, for example,
not recognized Kosovo for that reason. We believe there is
very little chance that Indonesia would support the claims of
these two breakaway provinces.
HUME
SIPDIS
DEPT FOR EAP, EAP/MTS, EAP/MLS, EAP/RSP, EUR, EUR/CARC
NSC FOR E.PHU
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/16/2019
TAGS: PREL PBTS ID GG
SUBJECT: ABKHAZIA/SOUTH OSSETIA -- URGING INDONESIA TO
AVOID RECOGNITION AND NOT TO LEND LEGITIMACY
REF: STATE 24186
Classified By: Pol/C Joseph L. Novak, reasons 1.4 (b+d).
1. (C) SUMMARY: Mission has reviewed Department's points
related to Georgia with the GOI. Indonesia has no intention
of recognizing either Abkhazia or South Ossetia as
independent countries or lending legitimacy in any way to
their self-proclaimed status. END SUMMARY.
2. (C) Per reftel instructions, poloff urged Indonesia to
avoid any actions that would lend legitimacy to the breakaway
Georgian areas of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In a March 16
discussion with Cicilia Rusdiharini, Deputy Director for
American Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs
(DEPLU),poloff underscored that recognition of the
self-proclaimed republics was inconsistent with UN Security
Council Resolution 1808 and could exacerbate tensions in the
region.
3. (C) Rusdiharini responded that Indonesia fully respected
Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity and had no
plans to recognize either Abkhazia or South Ossetia.
4. (C) Per DEPLU's comments, the GOI is sensitive to any
international actions that might set a negative precedent for
Indonesia as a multi-ethnic state with a history of regional
independence struggles. Indonesia has so far, for example,
not recognized Kosovo for that reason. We believe there is
very little chance that Indonesia would support the claims of
these two breakaway provinces.
HUME