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RI, FRANCE DISAPPOINTED UNSC RESOLUTION UNHEEDED
Jakarta, Jan 10 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said here on Saturday Indonesia and France were disappointed by the fact that the United Nations Security Council's resolution on Gaza has gone unheeded so that violence in the region was continuing and claiming more lives, including those of children and women.
But Indonesia and France would continue to make various efforts to put an end to the crisis in Gaza, the president said at a press conference after having a phone conversation with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday afternoon.
"We know that the resolution has not been respected in the field, that violence is still continuing and victims keep falling in the critical humanitarian tragedy that has claimed the highest number of child and woman victims," he said.
He said, "on the one hand, we are glad the UNSC has issued a resolution but on the other, we are also disappointed because the resolution has been ignored."
Yudhoyono said the issue was one of the topics of the discussion he had held with President Sarkozy and Indonesia and France in this case shared the same view.
"President Sarkozy and me in our talk just now were aware of the situation and certainly were disappointed that the resolution has gone unheeded," he said.
President Yudhoyono said talks such as the one he had held with President Sarkozy were very important because in the conversation they were able to express their respective opinions as inputs for the taking of concrete measures for the settlement of the problem in the Gaza Strip.
"I have conveyed Indonesia's position clearly and therefore we hope, in addition to the steps that we have already taken, cooperation and synergic efforts like this at a leaders' level need to be made to ensure the implementation of the resolution. The international community cannot let this happen," he said.
President Yudhoyono said another important point he had raised in his talk with President Sarkozy was the need to make Israel withdraw its forces from the Gaza Strip.
He said, in Indonesia's view, clear steps had to be formulated to ensure the implementation of the resolution.
"The Indonesian government will take other steps to urge, if indeed the present resolution cannot effectively stop the Israeli military attacks or lead to a cease-fire, the issuance of a new resolution or at least creation of a mechanism on how it could be followed, implemented and respected by all parties involved in the conflict in the field particularly Israel," he said.
President Yudhoyono said the Indonesian government would make various efforts to ensure that the crisis in the Gaza Strip would come to an end so that the death toll would not increase.
But Indonesia and France would continue to make various efforts to put an end to the crisis in Gaza, the president said at a press conference after having a phone conversation with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday afternoon.
"We know that the resolution has not been respected in the field, that violence is still continuing and victims keep falling in the critical humanitarian tragedy that has claimed the highest number of child and woman victims," he said.
He said, "on the one hand, we are glad the UNSC has issued a resolution but on the other, we are also disappointed because the resolution has been ignored."
Yudhoyono said the issue was one of the topics of the discussion he had held with President Sarkozy and Indonesia and France in this case shared the same view.
"President Sarkozy and me in our talk just now were aware of the situation and certainly were disappointed that the resolution has gone unheeded," he said.
President Yudhoyono said talks such as the one he had held with President Sarkozy were very important because in the conversation they were able to express their respective opinions as inputs for the taking of concrete measures for the settlement of the problem in the Gaza Strip.
"I have conveyed Indonesia's position clearly and therefore we hope, in addition to the steps that we have already taken, cooperation and synergic efforts like this at a leaders' level need to be made to ensure the implementation of the resolution. The international community cannot let this happen," he said.
President Yudhoyono said another important point he had raised in his talk with President Sarkozy was the need to make Israel withdraw its forces from the Gaza Strip.
He said, in Indonesia's view, clear steps had to be formulated to ensure the implementation of the resolution.
"The Indonesian government will take other steps to urge, if indeed the present resolution cannot effectively stop the Israeli military attacks or lead to a cease-fire, the issuance of a new resolution or at least creation of a mechanism on how it could be followed, implemented and respected by all parties involved in the conflict in the field particularly Israel," he said.
President Yudhoyono said the Indonesian government would make various efforts to ensure that the crisis in the Gaza Strip would come to an end so that the death toll would not increase.
