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196686
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MALAYSIA BACKS IDEA OF CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR WEAPON-FREE ZONES
By Ahmad Fuad Yahya
NUSA DUA (BALI), July 23 (Bernama) -- Malaysia backs the idea of organising a conference on nuclear weapon-free zones at the meeting of the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ) Commission held here Monday.
Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said Malaysia was of the view that the sharing of experiences through the conference might be useful to the possible establishment of a nuclear weapon-free zone in the Middle East.
Malaysia also supported the decision of the SEANWFZ Executive Commission last Sunday, for Indonesia, as the Chair of the SEANWFZ Commission, to represent Asean to meet the nuclear weapons states at ministerial level to task the experts to hold direct informal consultations to discuss issues related to the SEANWFZ Treaty, he said in a statement here.
The SEANWFZ meeting, which was held on Monday and attended by all Asean member states, among other things agreed for Asean to hold direct informal consultations with nuclear weapon states (the United States, France, Russia, United Kingdom and China) to discuss issues related to the SEANWFZ Treaty, prior to the 66th United Nations General Assembly.
Chaired by Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, the meeting unanimously agreed for Cambodia to be the next Chair of the SEANWFZ Commission, effective January next year.
It also took note of the progress report submitted by the deputy
secretary-general of Asean Political-Security on the Implementation of the Plan of Action to Strengthen the SEANWFZ Treaty.
They include the ratification process agreements related to the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty by Indonesia and International Atomic Energy Agency by Laos.
The meeting also took note of the need to review the Plan of Action to Strengthen the Implementation of the Treaty on the SEANWFZ that ends next year.
NUSA DUA (BALI), July 23 (Bernama) -- Malaysia backs the idea of organising a conference on nuclear weapon-free zones at the meeting of the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ) Commission held here Monday.
Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said Malaysia was of the view that the sharing of experiences through the conference might be useful to the possible establishment of a nuclear weapon-free zone in the Middle East.
Malaysia also supported the decision of the SEANWFZ Executive Commission last Sunday, for Indonesia, as the Chair of the SEANWFZ Commission, to represent Asean to meet the nuclear weapons states at ministerial level to task the experts to hold direct informal consultations to discuss issues related to the SEANWFZ Treaty, he said in a statement here.
The SEANWFZ meeting, which was held on Monday and attended by all Asean member states, among other things agreed for Asean to hold direct informal consultations with nuclear weapon states (the United States, France, Russia, United Kingdom and China) to discuss issues related to the SEANWFZ Treaty, prior to the 66th United Nations General Assembly.
Chaired by Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, the meeting unanimously agreed for Cambodia to be the next Chair of the SEANWFZ Commission, effective January next year.
It also took note of the progress report submitted by the deputy
secretary-general of Asean Political-Security on the Implementation of the Plan of Action to Strengthen the SEANWFZ Treaty.
They include the ratification process agreements related to the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty by Indonesia and International Atomic Energy Agency by Laos.
The meeting also took note of the need to review the Plan of Action to Strengthen the Implementation of the Treaty on the SEANWFZ that ends next year.
