VOI - Voice of Indonesia | RRI - Radio Republik Indonesia

Every member of the UN Security Council in the alphabetical order has an opportunity to become chairman of the UN security council. In a press briefing on Thursday, in Jakarta, the Director of the International Security and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Grata Werdaningtyas, said that Indonesia, represented by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Retno Marsudi, led an open session discussing various world peace issues with the theme "Investing in Peace: Enhancing the Security and Performance of UN Peacekeeping. "

“In essence, the minister will lead an open session of the UN Security Council on the theme that we will adopt, namely investing in peace on the 7th of April. The open debate or open session will be attended by the UN Secretary General and we will invite a number of briefer especially commander who has been on the mission. So we will listen directly to input from the commander whose daily work is on the UN missions. we will invite from Monusco (United Nations Mission for Stabilization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo-ed). Why Monusco? Because it happened that our last battalion was in Congo for the Rapid Deployment Battalion (RDB),” said Grata Werdaningtyas.

Grata added Retno Marsudi would also lead the Aria Formula or Informal discussion of the UN Security Council on Palestine. This formula will focus on efforts to find solutions to illegal settlements. An open debate on the protection of civil society will also be held to coincide with the Commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Geneva convention on international humanitarian law. (VOI / NUKE/AHM)