INDONESIA / RATIFICATION

The Indonesian parliament ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in a vote earlier today. Eight countries remain out of the CTBT: India, China, North Korea, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Pakistan and the United States, which has been signed by 182 countries and ratified by 156. CTBTO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:00
• Production Date: 6 December 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY ORGANIZATION - CTBTO
• Subject Topical: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; PEACE AND SECURITY; NUCLEAR SCIENCE
• Geographic Subject: INDONESIA
• MAMS Id: U111206c

Description

STORY: INDONESIA / RATIFICATION
TRT: 2.00
SOURCE: CTBTO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 6 DECEMBER 2011, JAKARTA, INDONESIA

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, exterior, parliament building
2. Close up, exterior, parliament building
4. Wide shot, Tibor arrives at parliament
6. Wide shot, parliament
7. Wide shot, speaker of the house
9. Wide shot, members of parliament
10. Wide shot, parliamentarian speech
11. Med shot, Tibor and team witnessing ratification
12. Med shot, speaker of the House reading out ratification and banging gavel
13. Wide shot, parliament and applause
14. Med shot, Tibor with foreign minister and parliamentarians
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Marty Natalagawa, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Indonesia:
“This is a seminal development. We are thrilled by our success in concluding the ratification process. But the work has just begun. The real work has now just begun.”
16. Med shot, members of parliament
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Tibor Tóth, Executive Secretary, Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO):
“The parliament today, by consensus, ratified the treaty. It’s a message globally, a message globally to the other eight countries who are still to ratify the treaty. It’s a leadership role of Indonesia. And in the narrower region as well, the Asean region, of course it’s an important leadership, leadership for the countries like Brunei and Thailand and Myanmar.”
18. Med shot, people in parliament complex
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Tibor Tóth, Executive Secretary, Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO):
“This is about the future of the region, which is to be the engine of economic development, development in the wider sense. This development cannot happen unless it’s underpinned with a strong security pillar.”
20. Wide shot, exterior parliament building

Storyline

The head of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) Tibor Tóth congratulated Indonesia’s parliamentarians today for ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)

Tóth said that it was “a message globally to the other eight countries who are still to ratify the treaty."

Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa defined the ratification as a “seminal development," welcoming the achievement but adding that “the real work has now just begun."

Indonesia’s endorsement of the Treaty will receive official recognition when it is presented to the United Nations. One hundred and eighty-two countries have signed the Treaty, of which 156 have also ratified it.

The CTBT’s stringent entry-into-force provision proscribes that all 44 designated nuclear technology holder countries must sign and ratify the Treaty in order to bring it into law. With Indonesia’s ratification, 36 have now done so. The remaining ones are China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan and the United States.

Indonesia currently chairs the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), who’s 10 Member States have also concluded the Bangkok Treaty establishing the most comprehensive nuclear-weapon-free zone on Earth.

The CTBT has been signed by all ASEAN Member States. Three - Brunei, Myanmar, and Thailand - have still to ratify as do Indonesia’s neighbours Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka and Timor Leste.