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C O N F I D E N T I A L JAKARTA 000870 
 
SIPDIS 
 
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DEPT FOR EAP, T, PM, ISN, VCI, EAP/MTS, EAP/MLS 
NSC FOR E.PHU 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/30/2018 
TAGS: PARM KNNP NPT IAEA ID
SUBJECT: NPT PREPCOM PAPERS -- INDONESIAN RESPONSE 
 
REF: A. SECSTATE 43044 
     ¶B. JAKARTA 0839 
 
Classified By: Pol/C Joseph Legend Novak, reasons 1.4(b+d). 
 
¶1.  (C) SUMMARY:  Poloff on April 29 discussed the two U.S. 
papers (ref A) for the NPT Preparatory Committee Meeting with 
GOI contact.  Poloff encouraged the GOI to consider 
co-sponsoring one or both of the papers.  Our GOI contact did 
not indicate Indonesian support for either paper but listened 
to the USG points with interest and responded at some length. 
 Indonesia had no plans to present a paper but would raise 
disarmament-related issues during the discussions, he said. 
END SUMMARY. 
 
EXPANDING CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION 
 
¶2.  (C) Regarding the paper on expanding international civil 
nuclear cooperation, Andy Rachmianto, Deputy Director for 
International Security and Disarmament at the Department of 
Foreign Affairs said this matter had been intensively 
discussed at the recent International Conference on the 
Nuclear Fuel Cycle in Berlin, which he had attended.  Poloff 
noted that Indonesia had in the past expressed support for a 
multilateral fuel cycle arrangement as one of the keys to 
resolving the Iran nuclear issue, 
 
¶3.  (C) Rachmianto said there had been extensive discussion 
in Berlin of what "multilateral" might entail.  Noting that 
Indonesia had plans to develop peaceful nuclear energy and 
would in the future be interested in a reliable supply of 
fuel for its facilities, Rachmianto said Indonesia at this 
point preferred to rey( on market mechanisms rather than a 
special arrnngement.  The third option, he added, was for a 
o*untry to enrich fuel itself. 
 
DEALING WITH NPT WITHDRAWAL 
 
¶4.  (C) Rachmianto suggested that, thoggh not identified by 
name, North Korea was the im(ediate catalyst for the paper re 
NPT withdrawal  with prospective Iranian withdrawal a 
possible e cond.  He pointed out that, in addition to Article 
X of the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the Vienaa Convention 
on the Law of Treaties also guarante d the sovereign right of 
a country to withdraw rrom treaties.  Consistent with the 
arguments in h(e U.S. paper, the Vienna Convention likewise 
specified that withdrawal did not absolve a state of tee 
obligation to fulfil its former commitments asa  party to the 
treaty. 
 
¶5.  (C) Rachmianto agreed that enforcement of those 
commitments was a po*blem and that a mechanism for this was 
needed.  Although referral to the UN Security Council was on 
of the few recourses available, he said, the UNCQ was not 
part of the NPT process.  It was imporaant to strengthen and 
support the NPT process asm(uch as possible.  Therefore, a 
better first step might be to convene an extraordinary 
meeting of NPT parties to decide how to respond.  This would 
allow all affected parties to address the issue and work out 
a common strategy.  That meeting could then decide, after 
consideration, to refer the matter to the UNSC. 
 
OTHER ISSUES 
 
¶6.  (C) Indonesia had no plans to present a paper at the 
Prepcom, Rachmianto said, but did have other concerns which 
it would want to discuss.  These included the future of the 
START-I Treaty, Article VI of the NPT regarding Disarmament 
and the early entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban 
Treaty (CTBT).  Indonesia's view was that these steps were 
overdue and hinged largely on action by the United States. 
(Note:  The first two relate to Indonesia's standing advocacy 
of disarmament; the CTBT awaits U.S. ratification.) 
 
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