NAM Communique – Ministerial meeting – Letter from Indonesia (excerpt)

General Assembly                                            Security Council

Forty-ninth session                                         Fiftieth year

Agenda items 12, 18, 24, 25, 33, 34,

  35, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 48, 51,

  52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 62, 63, 64,

  65, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 79, 87,

  88, 89, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 98, 99,

  100, 101, 142, 154, 156 and 158

REPORT OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL

  COUNCIL

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECLARATION ON

  THE GRANTING OF INDEPENDENCE TO

  COLONIAL COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES

NECESSITY OF ENDING THE ECONOMIC,

  COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL EMBARGO

  IMPOSED BY THE UNITED STATES OF

  AMERICA AGAINST CUBA

THE SITUATION IN BURUNDI

QUESTION OF EQUITABLE REPRESENTATION

  ON AND INCREASE IN THE MEMBERSHIP

  OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL AND

  RELATED MATTERS

THE SITUATION OF DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN

  RIGHTS IN HAITI

LAW OF THE SEA

THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

THE SITUATION IN BOSNIA AND

  HERZEGOVINA

QUESTION OF PALESTINE

THE SITUATION IN CENTRAL AMERICA:

  PROCEDURES FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT

  OF A FIRM AND LASTING PEACE AND

  PROGRESS IN FASHIONING A REGION

  OF PEACE, FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY AND

  DEVELOPMENT

RESTRUCTURING AND REVITALIZATION

  OF THE UNITED NATIONS IN THE

  ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND RELATED FIELDS

COMMEMORATION OF THE FIFTIETH

  ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED NATIONS

  IN 1995

LAUNCHING OF GLOBAL NEGOTIATIONS ON

  INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION

  FOR DEVELOPMENT

QUESTION OF CYPRUS

CONSEQUENCES OF THE IRAQI OCCUPATION

  OF AND AGGRESSION AGAINST KUWAIT

THE ROLE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

  IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL

  SECURITY, DISARMAMENT AND OTHER

  RELATED FIELDS

AMENDMENT OF THE TREATY BANNING

  NUCLEAR WEAPON TESTS IN THE

  ATMOSPHERE, IN OUTER SPACE AND

  UNDER WATER

COMPREHENSIVE TEST-BAN TREATY

ESTABLISHMENT OF A NUCLEAR-WEAPON-

  FREE ZONE IN THE REGION OF THE

  MIDDLE EAST

CONCLUSION OF EFFECTIVE INTERNATIONAL

  ARRANGEMENTS TO ASSURE NON-NUCLEAR-

  WEAPON STATES AGAINST THE USE OR

  THREAT OF USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

GENERAL AND COMPLETE DISARMAMENT

REVIEW AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE

  CONCLUDING DOCUMENT OF THE

  TWELFTH SPECIAL SESSION OF THE

  GENERAL ASSEMBLY

REVIEW OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE

  RECOMMENDATIONS AND DECISIONS

  ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  AT ITS TENTH SPECIAL SESSION

ISRAELI NUCLEAR ARMAMENT

STRENGTHENING OF SECURITY AND

  COOPERATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

  REGION

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECLARATION

  OF THE INDIAN OCEAN AS A ZONE

  OF PEACE

MAINTENANCE OF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

CONSOLIDATION OF THE REGIME ESTABLISHED

  BY THE TREATY FOR THE PROHIBITION OF

  NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN LATIN AMERICA AND

  THE CARIBBEAN (TREATY OF TLATELOLCO)

FINAL TEXT OF A TREATY ON AN AFRICAN

  NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE ZONE

PROTECTION AND SECURITY OF SMALL STATES

COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE WHOLE

  QUESTION OF PEACE-KEEPING OPERATIONS

  IN ALL THEIR ASPECTS

MACROECONOMIC POLICY QUESTIONS

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND

  INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION

ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

AGENDA FOR DEVELOPMENT

ELIMINATION OF RACISM AND RACIAL

  DISCRIMINATION

RIGHT OF PEOPLES TO SELF-DETERMINATION

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING

  QUESTIONS RELATING TO THE WORLD

  SOCIAL SITUATION AND TO YOUTH,

  AGEING, DISABLED PERSONS AND THE

  FAMILY

ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN

INTERNATIONAL DRUG CONTROL

REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH

  COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES, QUESTIONS

  RELATING TO REFUGEES, RETURNEES AND

  DISPLACED PERSONS AND HUMANITARIAN

  QUESTIONS

HUMAN RIGHTS QUESTIONS

PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS

  OF CHILDREN

MEASURES TO ELIMINATE INTERNATIONAL

  TERRORISM

UNITED NATIONS NEW AGENDA FOR THE

  DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA IN THE 1990s

BUILDING A PEACEFUL AND BETTER WORLD

  THROUGH SPORT

REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

  ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Letter dated 18 May 1995 for the Permanent Representative of

Indonesia addressed to the Secretary-General

In my capacity as Chairman of the Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement, I have the honour to transmit herewith the communiqué of the Ministerial Meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, held at Bandung, Indonesia, from 25 to 27 April 1995 (see annexes).*

I should be grateful if you would have the text of the present letter and its annex circulated as an official document of the forty-ninth session of the General Assembly, under agenda items 12, 18, 24, 25, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44, 48, 51, 52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 62, 63, 64, 65, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 79, 87, 88, 89, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 142, 154, 156 and 158, and of the Security Council.

________________________

* The text of the annexes is being circulated in the languages of submission only.

(Signed)  Nugroho WISNUMURTI   

Ambassador       

Permanent Representative

EXCERPTS FROM COMMUNIQUÉ ADOPTED AT THE MINISTERIAL MEETING

OF THE COORDINATING BUREAU OF THE MOVEMENT OF

NON-ALIGNED COUNTRIES HELD AT BANDUNG, INDONESIA

FROM 25 TO 17 APRIL 1995

"36.   The Ministers reiterated their support for the establishment in the Middle East of a zone free of all weapons of mass-destruction.  To this end, the Ministers reaffirmed the need for the speedy establishment of a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East in accordance with the relevant GA resolutions adopted by consensus.  The called upon all parties concerned to take urgent and practical steps towards the establishment of such a zone and, pending its establishment, called on Israel to renounce possession of nuclear weapons, to accede to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and to place all its nuclear facilities under full-scope IAEA safeguards.

"37.   In the Middle East, the Ministers reaffirmed their support for the peace process initiated at the Madrid Peace Conference of October 1991 which aims at achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East based on Security Council resolutions, 242, 338 and 425 and the principles of land for peace which ensure the full Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian and other Arab occupied territories.

"38.   The Ministers noted a number of important developments in the peace process, most notably the signing of the Declaration of Principles between the PLO and Israel on 13 September 1993 as well as the signing of subsequent implementation agreements.  While expressing support for the peace endeavours, they voiced serious concern at the obstacles faced to implement the agreements and at the continued tension and violence in the area which is exacerbated by the economic flight of the Palestinians.  Further aggravating the situation is Israel's persistent refusal to redeploy its forces from the West Bank and its untenable policy and practice of building settlements in the occupied territories especially in and around the Holy City of Jerusalem, which have grave security, economic and social repercussions.  The Ministers called for the full and scrupulous implementation of the agreements reached between the two sides, particularly the holding of elections to a Palestinian legislature.  With regard to Israel's illegal policy and practice of building settlements in the occupied territory, the Ministers called for their dismantlement in accordance with relevant Security Council resolutions.  They further called for the speedy fulfillment of pledged economic assistance to the Palestinian people at this crucial time.  The Ministers also stressed the urgent need for rapid progress towards the attainment of a final settlement and achievement of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, particularly the right to self-determination and the establishment of their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.  In this regard, the Ministers expressed their support to the call made by the Jerusalem Committee, held in Ifrane, Morocco, 16-17 January 1995, to the UN Security Council, in particular the two co-sponsors of the Peace Conference to take necessary measures to compel Israel to desist from carrying out any settlement and Judaisation of the Holy City of Jerusalem and any geographic or demographic changes therein, and to comply with agreements and conventions providing for the preservation of the Palestinian institutions and the Islamic and Christian holy sites in the Holy City of Jerusalem in implementation of relevant Security Council resolutions.

"39.   The Ministers noted the Washington Declaration between Jordan and Israel which ended the state of war between them and paved the way for signing the Peace Treaty in 26 October 1994, as well as the subsequent agreements through which Jordan was able to regain its sovereignty over all its territories, its rightful-share of water and the demarcation of its international borders.

"40.   the Ministers noted with appreciation the commendable efforts exerted by the Syrian and Lebanese Governments in order to open up possibilities for achieving progress, in their full commitment to peace in the Middle East, and demanded that Israel totally withdraw from the occupied Syrian Golan and Lebanese territories, in implementation of relevant Security Council resolutions and in accordance with international law, and the principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force.

"41.   The Ministers considered that all measures and actions taken by Israel, the occupying power, such as its illegal decision of 14 December 1981, that purport to alter the status of the occupied Syrian Golan are null and void, constitute a flagrant violation of international law and of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and have no legal effect.  they called upon Israel to comply with Security Council resolution 497 (1981) and withdraw fully from the occupied Syrian Golan to the lines of the 4th of June 1967, in implementation of Security Council resolutions 242 and 338.

"42.   The Ministers called for the respect of Lebanon's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity and condemned the continued Israeli occupation of part of South Lebanon and West Beka'a Valley.  They reaffirmed the necessity of prompt and unconditional implementation of Security Council Resolution 425 (1978) as a prerequisite to peace and security in the region, the release of all Lebanese detainees in Israeli camps and the lifting of the naval blockade of the Southern Lebanese coast."