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Indonesian foreign affairs minister Retno Marsudi held a bilteral meeting with Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne during the 73rd UN Security Council General Assembly in New York on Tuesday (25/9/2018). That is the first opportunity for the two ministers to meet after Marise Payne replacing Julie Bishop. During the meeting they were discussing several issues such as the visit of Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morilrison to Indonesia last month and Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). According to the press release received by Voice of Indonesia on Wednesday (26/9/2018) Retno Mrsudi stated her gratitude to Australia for its support in the Pacific Island Forum cooperation (PIF) and on a consistency on Indonesia territorial integrity admittance.

“This is a new kind of partnership because Payne hold a portfolio as foreign affairs minister and I also express my gratitude to Australia for having a good cooperation in supporting Indonesia on the Pacific Island Forum cooperation and Australia's consistency to Indonesia territorial integrity,” Retno Mrasudi said.

Moreover Marsudi also discuss Indonesia's invitation to Australia to participate in Our Ocean Conference that will be held in Bali on October. Generally there are no bilateral issues discussed deeply because the meeting symbolically stated new partnership//Reza/trans : NK

Indonesian foreign affairs minister Retno Marsudi held a bilteral meeting with Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne during the 73rd UN Security Council General Assembly in New York on Tuesday (25/9/2018). That is the first opportunity for the two ministers to meet after Marise Payne replacing Julie Bishop. During the meeting they were discussing several issues such as the visit of Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morilrison to Indonesia last month and Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). According to the press release received by Voice of Indonesia on Wednesday (26/9/2018) Retno Mrsudi stated her gratitude to Australia for its support in the Pacific Island Forum cooperation (PIF) and on a consistency on Indonesia territorial integrity admittance.

“This is a new kind of partnership because Payne hold a portfolio as foreign affairs minister and I also express my gratitude to Australia for having a good cooperation in supporting Indonesia on the Pacific Island Forum cooperation and Australia's consistency to Indonesia territorial integrity,” Retno Mrasudi said.

Moreover Marsudi also discuss Indonesia's invitation to Australia to participate in Our Ocean Conference that will be held in Bali on October. Generally there are no bilateral issues discussed deeply because the meeting symbolically stated new partnership//Reza/trans : NK

Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi is one of the participants of "Working Lunch on Rohingya Crisis" that was held by England and French during the 73rd UN General Assembly high level meeting in New York, USA on Monday (24/9/2018). According to the press release received by Voice of Indonesia on Tuesday (25/9), Retno Marsudi stated that Indonesia and International community will continue to observe the MOU between Bangladesh and Myanmar on Rohignya ethnic repatriation cooperation. This cooperation is hoped to fulfill Rohingya refugees rights in Bangladesh so they can return to Myanmar. Moreover , Marsudi said that there are several steps needed before the repatriation process is done such as creating conducive environment, security insurance and trust among Myanmar and Bangladesh.

“Well the concrete steps can be divided into several preparation steps. The preparation is if we talk about enabling environment so the environment has to be prepared until they return. Security assurance is very important. Building shelters is important too. And now enabling environment is taking place so the repatriation needs to be done immediately. Yesterday on the meeting, Bangladesh and Myanmar have stated trust is a very valuable asset to speed up the repatriation because if there's trust there is nothing can stop repatriation,” Retno Marsudi said.

Furthermore, Retno Marsudi said that the longer Rohingya ethnic stayed in refugees camp the situation will not get better. Because the camp condition is not well and make the refugees psychological conditions depressed. This of course can be a gap for the hard ideology or radical to enter and influence the refugees. Retno also reminded that repatriation process was followed up by inclusive life creation including supporting economy development for Rohingya.//Reza/trans: NK

Indonesia was successfully elected as the UN Security Council non permanent member for 2019-2020 period after gaining 144 votes at the UN Security Council General Assembly last June. Before officially sit as the nonpermanent member of the UN Security Council on January 1st, 2019, Indonesia has made special preparation that consist of training for representative or staff that will be place in the bilateral meetings with several countries, including other countries which were elected as the non permanent member of UN Security Council 2019-2020.  As October 1^st, Indonesia will sit as an observer at the council. It was stated by Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Retno Marsudi through a press release received by Voice of Indonesia on Wednesday Sept. 26th in Jakarta.

"We are in preparation to be the non permanent member of UN security council, but from October the first we will be an observer first. It means we don’t join the voting session. There are many things to do for the preparation including trainings, and we also meet some countries in the council or that will join the council such as South Africa, Belgium, Germany and Dominica. I and Germany minister have met to discuss the migrant issues but in a UN context we want to develop the partnership to multilateralism. So the process is still running," Retno Marsudi said.

Retno Marsudi and Foreign Minister of Germany, Heiko Mass had held a bilateral meeting during the Bali Democracy Forum chapter Berlin that was held on September 14th. During the meeting the two ministers agreed to bring peace and world security to be the main focus on the UN Security Council. Therefore, Indonesia and German have determined to strengthen global ecosystem for world peace and security. Both ministers also agreed to add the agreement between the UN Security Council members state and all countries in many levels, and have a regular consultation to handle several issues in the world//trans: NK