Indonesian mission in the second Nuclear Security Summit was to eradicate nuclear weapons in order that it would never fall into terrorists’ hands, the Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marty Natalegawa, said on Monday. “The main guarantee of nuclear safety is the eradication of nuclear weapons,” Natalegawa said, reported by Nasihin Masha from Republika. The first Nuclear [...]
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to meet with leaders of Pakistan, Norway, Netherlands, and Denmark on the sidelines the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea on Monday. According to the Indonesian Embassy in Seoul, Yudhoyono will meet with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani and Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg at 2.30 [...]
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Indonesia and China must work towards promoting peace in the Asia Pacific region. “With regard to the Asia Pacific region, we must continue taking advantage of and even developing the regional architecture to assure a conducive order for peace and welfare,” he said in his speech after receiving an [...]
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Indonesia will continue urging that nuclear weapons be reduced, while working to prevent an increase in the stock of weapons of mass destruction to assure the world`s political order and security remains stable. “In recent talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon we agreed we are not yet satisfied with the development of nuclear weapons [...]
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The progress of the building of Indonesian Hospital (RSI) in Gaza, Palestine, reaches 97 percent. “Alhamdulillah, praise to Allah SWT,” the Chairman of MER-C Gaza, Abdillah Onim, said on Wednesday. In his e-mail correspondent with Republika, Dillah said the progress of first stage was almost finished. The casting of the third story on Tuesday marked [...]
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, planned to visit China, Hong Kong, and South Korea and brought along some agenda. He flew from Halim Perdana Kusuma Airport on Thursday at 10.00 of local time. His first visit was Beijing where he held bilateral meeting with President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. SBY and PM Wen [...]
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono opened the Jakarta International Defense Dialogue (JIDD) at the Jakarta Convention Centre, here on Wednesday. The three-day dialogue is an international event organized by the Ministry of Defence and the Defence University, held for the second time since 2011. Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said that the forum is a [...]
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Southeast Asia is a stable and secure region thanks to the ever increasing regional cooperation, including mutually beneficial cooperation among the military. “That the 10-member ASEAN is aiming to form an ASEAN community is an example of regional cooperation,” the President said while opening the Jakarta International Defence Dialogue (JIDD) [...]
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon presented a blue helmet to President Susilo Yudhoyono as a symbol of appreciation for Indonesia’s participation in the UN peacekeeping forces. Yudhoyono received the blue helmet at the Sentul Peacekeeping and Security Center here on Tuesday. The President wore the helmet as soon as he received it and posed [...]
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will hold a bilateral meeting at Bogor Palace in Bogor, West Java, at 9 on Tuesday morning. After the bilateral meeting, Yudhoyono and Ban Ki-Moon will make their way to International Peace and Security Centre (IPSC) in Sentul to speak on the “UN Peacekeeping: Challenges [...]
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