INDONESIA REJECTS UN RESOLUTION ON IRAN THAT INVOLVES MILITARY ACTION

Jakarta - Indonesia will not accept another UN Security Council resolution on Iran's nuclear program if it will involve military action, a Foreign Ministry official said. 

"As we know, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Thursday (24/05) published a report on Iran's nuclear program. The report has already been submitted to the IAEA's Board of Governors and the UN Security Council," the Ministry's Director of International Security and Disarmament, Desra Percaya, said on Friday (25/05).

Desra said the report was made at the UN Security Council's request pursuant to UN Resolution 1747. "According to plans, the IAEA's Board of Governors of which Indonesia is also member will discuss the IAEA Director General's report at its meeting to be held on June 11-15 this year," he said.

He said members of the IAEA's Board of Governors still did not know exactly in which direction the discussion on the IAEA report should be guided.  "Meanwhile, the UN Security Council has yet to decide when exactly the discussion on the IAEA report will be held because the report was submitted (to the UN Security Council) only yesterday (Thursday, 24/5/07)," he said.

To be sure, Indonesia would by no means accept the use of military action or violence to handle Iran's nuclear program, he said. "Indonesia continues to ask Iran to be cooperative and implement all standing procedures where its nuclear program is concerned," he said (Antara, 26/05/07).

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