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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,

lines on the record: 37
first: 2007-09-24
most recent: 2014-09-24
sittings or episodes: 3
sources: un-general-debate

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“Winners today are losers tomorrow. Let me conclude by saying that now is the time for all of us to start the serious business of building a new world of peace, prosperity and justice and of making everybody a winner by creating and nurturing the new all-inclusive “we” that leaves no one behind.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“In saying that, I am neither a Utopian nor a blind idealist in understanding international relations. However, I believe that, with a strong commitment and political will, we can make the impossible possible. As we say in Indonesia, where there is a will, there is a way. We must drive the frontiers of nationalism into a new globalism, where we can devise solutions to national, regional and global issues at the same time. We must achieve a new globalism, where no nation is left behind and no nation dominates and where rights are protected and responsibilities are met. In the world of a new globalism, wars are unthinkable. In the first place, wars are fought because nations play a zero- sum game, where the winners take all and the losers weep — the game of us against them, which the “us” must win and the “them” must lose.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“The Indonesian and South-East Asian experiences underscore the dawn of a new age of globalism for the twenty-first century — a world that openly embraces change as opposed to being intimidated by it. What the world so desperately needs today is a pioneering spirit: the boldness to break old boundaries and to create new frontiers. Given that spirit, I believe that humankind can overcome the challenge of climate change, conquer poverty, eradicate social injustice, hasten the global economic recovery and create a culture of peace among all religions, including the Abrahamic faiths. In that spirit, we can, hopefully, end the cycle of violence, hatred, fear and humiliation that has made so many conflicts around the world seem intractable for decades and centuries.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“In a world still burdened by insurgencies, we have managed to find a permanent peaceful political solution to end the 30-year conflict in Aceh province. In a world marked by turbulent transitions in the Middle East, time and again we have shown to our people and to the world that, in Indonesia, democracy, Islam, modernity and human rights go together. In a world often stigmatized by the past, Indonesia has opened a entire new chapter of peaceful relations with Timor-Leste on the basis on equality and mutual respect. In a world where territorial disputes often erupt into open conflicts, Indonesia has continued to peacefully resolve, one by one, the overlapping maritime borders with Vietnam, the Philippines, Singapore and other nations.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“It has been a great privilege to forge closer bonds between Indonesia and all nations represented in this great assembly, the United Nations. As I look back, I must admit that there remain many challenges that Indonesia must resolve. Some of our efforts are already on the right track. In a world desperately grappling with climate change, we are progressively and boldly applying a moratorium on deforestation — our important contribution to reducing carbon emission. In a world of economic uncertainty, we have increased our national income per capita by 400 per cent within just a short decade. In a world witnessing rising extremism, Indonesia continues to hold firm to the values of freedom, tolerance, moderation and multiculturalism, which form the basis of our nationhood.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“Economic interdependence has become the norm of the day. Moreover, South-East Asia is on the verge of becoming a true community. We regard that as the apex of strategic trust, which we believe can be replicated everywhere. The culture of peace and coexistence that we are trying to attain in Indonesia and in the ASEAN region is clearly the antidote to the poison of fundamentalist prejudice and deep intolerance, as practised by a terrorist group in Iraq and Syria that falsely defines itself as the Islamic State. The ideology of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant not only betrays the true teaching of Islam as a religion of peace but also harms and seriously upsets the Islamic Ummah throughout the world.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“I would say a resolute yes, for that is what has transpired in South-East Asia. In the second half of the 1960s, South-East Asian nations were poor, divided and insecure, threatened by a war raging in their neighbourhood and ignorant of one another after centuries of separation during the colonial past. The establishment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations enabled countries in the region to form the habit of dialogue and consultation with one another and to learn to trust one another. Today, we can proudly say that the once-divided 10 South-East Asian nations now belong to ASEAN-10. Together, they are all drivers of regional affairs and masters of their own destiny. A number of sensitive inter-State and intra-State conflicts have been peacefully resolved. Those that remain are being addressed through dialogue and negotiation.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“To do all of this, there must be mutual accommodation. There must be a forward-looking attitude that embraces a win-win predisposition rather than a zero-sum attitude. Diplomacy must take precedence. The deficit of trust must be transformed into strategic opportunities and confidence-building. It is not enough just to call for peaceful coexistence. That is so twentieth century. Here in the twenty-first century, we need much more than conditions in which world Powers merely peacefully coexist. We need those Powers to work passionately together in order to foster strategic cooperation and to tackle global issues. They must begin to turn the trust deficit into a new strategic trust not only among themselves but also with emerging Powers and with all nations of the United Nations. Is that possible?”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“Today I see that the international community is concerned about the danger of the old Cold War returning. Major-Power relations are worsening, fuelled by mutual suspicion. Relationships that were previously stable and cooperative are now marked by volatility and tension. That benefits no one, and we should therefore not let it become permanent. The major Powers — indeed, all of us — have an obligation to work together to resolve the major issues of our time. To mention only a few, we must end the suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza and the rest of the occupied territory and deliver the still elusive two-State solution. We must resolve the conflict in Ukraine that is now upsetting relations between Russia and the West. And we must find an effective and durable solution to the ongoing conflicts in Syria and Iraq.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“The fastest growth — one and a half times as fast as during the preceding two decades — was from 2000 to 2013, the period that coincided with our work on the MDGs. The value of global investments reached almost $1.5 trillion in 2013 for a near seven-fold increase since 1990. In South-East Asia, that positive geopolitical development has allowed us to develop stronger cooperation and to develop the region’s architecture. It led to the establishment of the East Asia Summit, a vision for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) community, a progressive ASEAN Charter, a more active ASEAN Regional Forum and other institutions. And Indonesia has also been able to develop strategic partnerships with all the major Powers as well as with many emerging Powers.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“Yet the importance of our work lies beyond the issue of development, since we are now also confronted with yet another major problem. We are witnessing a worrying deterioration in the relations between the major Powers. None of us, certainly not the United Nations, can afford to bury our heads in the sand about that grim development. It is especially worrying, given that for more than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world actually witnessed a series of promising events. Most fundamental was the fact that improved relations among the major Powers created ample space for new strategic and economic opportunities. Global trade totals have reached $23 trillion, an almost six-fold expansion since the year after the Cold War ended in 1990.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“The quest to achieve the MDGs over the past 15 years has also reinforced the need for a more robust global partnership. There has certainly been much activity. But somehow, our efforts in the World Trade Organization, on the post-Kyoto climate, on reforming the global financial architecture and the United Nations and in many other areas have proved painfully slow. As we set forth a new global agenda for development, I believe we can draw on those years of trial and error to become more acutely aware of the promises and pitfalls of development, and of what we want and what we do not want. We do not want development that measures progress in terms of material possessions alone and ends up dehumanizing and marginalizing our citizens. What we want is sustainable development with equity.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“The successes have been uneven, differing between regions, within regions and even within countries. We have come a long way, yet we still have a long way to go. For those who have made it, as well as for those who have yet to make it, I have learned one great lesson, which is that the most important driver of change lies in governance — not just good governance, but smart governance. Smart governance usually involves innovative leadership and active public participation. Without at least those two elements, all the hard work we put in will not produce the desired results. And with smart governance, nations can exceed their potential and leapfrog over others ahead of them. In Indonesia we have managed to increase our national per capita income by 400 per cent within just one decade, something that was beyond our wildest imagination.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“It is a great honour for me to stand once again before the Assembly — the last time I shall do so in my two terms as President of Indonesia. I could not agree more with the theme chosen for this session, “Delivering on and implementing a transformative post-2015 development agenda”, which is very much in line with the work of the High-level Panel I have been privileged to co-chair. For the past 15 years, the international community has been working on a grand and ambitious project for humankind, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Our hard work over the years has produced achievements that include breakthroughs in combating poverty, increasing school enrolment and improving public health. Those achievements are encouraging and, in some instances, inspiring. But humankind as a whole has not achieved all the MDG targets.”
2014-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 69 (2014)
“The peace that we achieve will not only give temporary respite, it will also last for generations. For many years, peace has been treated as if it were a science. There are whole libraries about how it can be achieved and preserved. I have come to the conclusion, however, that if peace has a technology it is one born of experience. That experience can be shared and can be useful in creating new experience. And if there is enough sharing of experiences — and that is what Indonesia is trying to achieve — and if there is sufficient political will to apply what is learned from others to one’s unique circumstances, then peace can be widely spread. Peace can be effectively waged. And we would have a gentler, better world.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“That is the only way for peace to be locked in for the long term; that is, when it brings dividends that give human beings robust confidence in the future. The price of inequality between and within nations gives rise to tension born of grievances that can, unless effectively addressed, lead to radicalism and even violence, which threaten international and national peace and security. The solution is to form a global partnership for poverty eradication and for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and then to formulate a post-MDG development agenda we can fully carry out. Our experience in the resolution of the intra-state conflict in the province of Aceh proves that, if we do enough for peace, if there is a conf luence of favourable circumstances, and if we are prepared to seize the moment, then peace can be achieved.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“Sooner or later, there comes a conf luence of factors and events that provides a window of opportunity for resolving a dispute and removing conflict from the table of options. That is what we in ASEAN have done with the potential conflicts in the South China Sea. The territorial and sovereignty disputes have been festering there for the better part of a century. But we are managing them with restraint, confidence-building and, at present, through earnest negotiations toward a legally binding code of conduct in the South China Sea. Finally, the culture of peace, mutual tolerance and appreciation, and cooperation must be supported by the right kind of economics. People need to be fed, to be sheltered and to be assured of a future where they have opportunities for a living and a livelihood.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“As the product of international consensus, that instrument should serve as a point of reference with which the world community must comply. For good measure, we also need to promote a continuing process of dialogue among faiths, civilizations and cultures. Of course, that dialogue should not remain a dialogue, but should translate into actual cooperation so that peoples of different cultures and faiths can come together as a community and care for one another. Those communities will become bulwarks for peace and they will make it difficult if not impossible for any kind of armed conflict to erupt. We must also master the art of preventive diplomacy. Most disputes are intractable; they simmer for what seems to be an eternity, but by a historical reckoning they are not really long, drawn-out affairs.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“As a nation that celebrates its diversity of culture and religions, Indonesia calls for mutual respect and understanding among peoples of different faiths. Despite initiatives undertaken by States at the United Nations and in other forums, the defamation of religions persists. We have seen yet another of its ugly faces in the film “ Innocence of Muslims” that is now causing an international uproar. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights underlines that, in exercising freedom of expression, everyone must observe morality and public order. Freedom of expression is therefore not absolute. Hence, I call for an international instrument to effectively prevent incitement to hostility or violence based on religion or belief.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“After ASEAN was founded, in 1967, it devoted the early decades of its life as a regional organization to cultivating the habits of dialogue, consultation and cooperation, not only among its members but with its dialogue partners. Thus, each ASEAN country adopted a new strategic mindset based on trust and a sense of having a stake in the success and progress of all the others. Today the ASEAN family is united and at peace with itself and with the rest of the world. At the same time, we can also develop a universal culture of mutual tolerance and mutual appreciation of one another’s religious convictions. In such a world, the voice of the moderates — the voice of reason and compassion — would be heard clearly over the din of prejudice and bigotry. In a global regime of compassion and tolerance, no war is possible.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“For long-term peace, a peace born of trust and mutual confidence, we must get rid of that mindset. In that light, we must continue to work towards a reformed Security Council, a Council that reflects the strategic realities of the twenty-first century and provides security to all. We must also work to perfect the instruments of peace, which include robust regionalism. We in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have seen how such regionalism can be a force for peace and cooperation. As a result of a strong regionalism, all of South-east Asia has thrived under ASEAN cooperation. South-east Asia, which was once the cockpit of border wars and the proxy wars of extra-regional Powers, has come together.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“And in this warm peace, pockets of hatred and bigotry, intolerance and extremism continue to litter our world. Perhaps we will have to live with this warm peace for decades. But I believe that we can lower the temperature of this warm peace. Where possible, we can resolve conflicts one by one. We can strengthen the building blocks of peace. We can promote a new globalism that can potentially change the dynamics of conflict resolution. In order to do that, we need to try new approaches and be more imaginative. The first thing we have to do is to evolve a new strategic mindset. Let us face it: remnants of the cold-war mentality still persist in parts of the geopolitical landscape, not least in our own United Nations, where rigid, dogmatic, zero-sum calculations sometimes still come into play.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“In this warm peace, old enmities and long-standing conflicts can still resurface in the new strategic landscape, even carried on by new generations. In this warm peace, we are seeing new security challenges and opportunities arising from the seismic power shifts that are occurring in some regions. The security implications of the political events in the Middle East are still unfolding. In this warm peace, the world community still has to contend with an array of unfinished business: the Arab-Israeli conflict, nuclear disarmament, territorial disputes in the South China Sea, tensions in the Korean peninsula, and the like. In this warm peace, new progress can easily regress. Hard-won peace processes can stall or even crumble. Strategic miscalculations in disputed theatres may lead to rising tensions and armed clashes.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“Nations are becoming more interdependent. International cooperation and partnerships are flourishing. However, it is only relative peace, not total peace as yet. We have moved from the era of the cold war to an era of “warm peace”. In this warm peace, the world remains stuck with an outdated international security architecture that still reflects twentieth-century circumstances, in contrast with the global economic architecture, which has done much better in adjusting to the twenty-first century. In this warm peace, the relationships between the major Powers are, for the first time, marked by relative stability and increased cooperation. But the question remains unanswered as to how they will accommodate the growing ranks of emerging Powers that are reshaping the world order.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“There is every likelihood that the community of nations will see similar conflicts in future. It will be in a different corner of the world, and in a different form, with different actors. It will not help the cause of international peace if, once again, we end up being divided and unable to positively alter the course of the conflict. The world community must develop ways to address them more effectively, towards their peaceful end. We must adapt to twenty-first century security challenges. There is no question that the world we live in today is in much better condition than it was in the twentieth century. Freedom has spread. The threat of nuclear holocaust is receding significantly. There is no prospect of a world war, the kind that twice created such destruction during the twentieth century. The global economy has expanded remarkably.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“That is clearly evident in the Syrian crisis. The world community is witnessing, with great pain, the worsening violence and unfolding humanitarian catastrophe on the ground; at the same time, the United Nations is in a state of paralysis in responding to the situation. There is no end in sight to the conflict, and it appears that we have not yet seen the worst of the crisis. Indonesia therefore reiterates its call for the immediate cessation of violence in Syria, which has taken a high toll in innocent civilian lives. The Security Council must now unite and act decisively, as mandated by the United Nations Charter, to bring the situation under control. Clearly, whatever the explanation, the present international system cannot for now resolve the Syrian conflict.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“May peace be upon us all. I am honoured to represent my country, Indonesia, at this year’s General Assembly debate to discuss how we can find better ways to peacefully resolve or manage conflicts around the world. This, of course, is what the United Nations is all about: to end the scourge of war, and to create a peaceful and equitable world order based on international cooperation. In the decades since its founding, the United Nations has developed a number of instruments to address conflicts in all their manifestations. During those decades, many inter-State and intra-State conflicts have been resolved — those in Angola, Bosnia, Cambodia, Timor-Leste, as well as many others. The question we must now ask is whether those instruments are adequate to address the whole spectrum of conflicts that the world community now faces.”
2012-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 67 (2012)
“I look forward to such a dialogue taking place at the Bali Conference this coming December. That will be a vitally important dialogue, for it can set off a chain of events that will lead to the fulfilment of the dream of billions for a safer, better life. It will certainly add sheen to the national dream of Indonesia our common dream for a better world of peace, social justice and equitably shared prosperity.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“After all, dialogue is the best way to exercise soft power. Dialogue and soft power can greatly advance the cause of disarmament and non-proliferation. Dialogue and soft power have helped resolve various intra-State conflicts including in Aceh, where two years ago we reached a peaceful political settlement that permanently ended the conflict. Dialogue and soft power can also be a major instrument in addressing the root causes of terrorism. That is why I am a firm advocate of dialogue among faiths, cultures and civilizations. I urge that the dialogue in the Alliance of Civilizations be fully integrated into the work of the United Nations. Sincere dialogue can lead to the formation of an effective global partnership on climate change, which is also a partnership for sustainable development.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“While developing countries are in hot pursuit of their Millennium Development Goals, the developed world can greatly help ensure the success of the Doha Development Round. Developed countries must ensure sufficient flows of financing for development through foreign direct investment and official development assistance. They must facilitate the transfer of technology for development. We in the developing world, on the other hand, must prudently manage our natural and human resources. We must practise good governance. We must fight corruption at all levels so that our resources will not be wasted. We must see to it that the human rights of our citizens are promoted and protected. No partnership works without teamwork, and no teamwork is possible without constant effective communication. That means dialogue.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“We are determined to maintain that proud tradition of involvement in global concerns. That, I believe, is what humankind needs most today, namely, the involvement of everyone. There must be a global partnership at work. Developed and developing countries must work together with a greater sense of partnership and of urgency. Therefore, to solve the problem of climate change the Bali Conference must set the stage for a genuine partnership between developed and developing countries and all other stakeholders. Developed countries must extend support while developing countries strive to protect and enhance their environment and its biodiversity. They must lighten the burden of developing countries in carrying out that immense task through incentives and the transfer of environmentally sound technology.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“And that is why our foreign policy addresses the need for a truly functioning global partnership for development, because only such a partnership can ultimately conquer the basic problem of poverty. Peace in the Middle East is crucial to long-term global stability. But there can be no peace in the Middle East unless there is justice, especially justice for the Palestinian people. A divided Palestinian nation cannot secure justice. Hamas and Fatah must therefore engage in dialogue and reconcile their agendas. The Arab initiative must catalyse political change in the region. Indonesia has a long history of participating in United Nations peacekeeping operations that dates back to the Suez conflict, in 1956. We are taking part in the operation in Lebanon today.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“We dream that we and our future generations can enjoy the blessings of peace, freedom, justice and prosperity. And we dream of seeing to it that the same blessings are enjoyed by the rest of humankind. Poverty can kill that dream. That is why the new Indonesia of today is fully dedicated to the fight against poverty. For that purpose, our national economic policy is focused on the development of rural areas, where the vast majority of our people live and where they wage a daily struggle against the ravages of poverty. That is why we are so intent on making the national business climate friendly and attractive to foreign direct investment, so that jobs will be created for our millions of unemployed people. That is why we are so intent on eradicating the taint of corruption from our society.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“On that basis, yesterday Indonesia took the initiative of launching a special leaders’ meeting of tropical rainforest countries. At that meeting, we leaders of the countries having custody of a great portion of the world’s rainforests decided to intensify our cooperation in forest conservation and reforestation. We also believe that countries that seek to enhance their carbon sinks through forestation, afforestation and avoided deforestation should be given incentives and rewarded fairly for doing so. Throughout our deliberations on climate change, let us always keep an eye on the requirements of development. That means we must not lose sight of the imperative to conquer poverty as a basic problem of the human condition. In Indonesia we have a national dream, which is reflected in our 1945 Constitution.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“The Bali conference must yield a new road map on climate change, and that new road map must spell out what must be done by both the developed and the developing worlds to save humankind and its planet from the looming tragedy of climate change. It must link the solution to the problem of climate change with sustainable development the conquest of poverty. It must produce an outcome and timeline that will be more comprehensive and more ambitious in achieving its practical objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We developing countries must protect our natural resources while using them wisely for development. Among the most valuable of our natural resources are our forests. From them, we extract economic wealth; through them, we store an immense volume of carbon that would otherwise pollute the atmosphere.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“When it comes to global warming, we are much more interdependent than we thought in terms of the causes, symptoms and solutions. We must uphold the principle of common and differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, but there is always room for every country, every community and every individual to be more flexible, more innovative and more inclusive. A persistent theme in our discussions on climate change yesterday was the need for urgency, which means the need for action and the need to think outside the box. I count myself as an optimist who sees today a larger window of opportunity to strike a global consensus to tackle global warming. We will have that chance in Bali.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)
“Let me begin by stating how much I welcome and support the theme of this year’s sixty-second session of the General Assembly, which is “Responding to climate change”. I stand here representing the good people of Indonesia, who are very eager to welcome representatives to the Bali conference in December this year. When they come to our country, they will see a great nation whose multi-ethnic and multi-religious people live in harmony with one another and in harmony with mother Earth, the way they have for thousands of years. Indonesia is a country that has felt and suffered the effects of climate change. In recent years, we have been hit by a series of natural disasters in the form of floods, drought, forest fires, El Niño, tsunamis and earthquakes. The issue of climate change has made us see interdependence in a completely new light.”
2007-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 62 (2007)