THE government has submitted a joint statement on peacekeeper security along with dozens of allied nations to the United Nations after three of its blue helmets were killed in Lebanon.
In the joint statement, the countries urged the UN Security Council to conduct a thorough investigation into the incidents in Southern Lebanon that killed three Indonesian peacekeepers and wounded several others, including from France, Ghana, Nepal, and Poland.
The Foreign Ministry in Jakarta said 73 countries and UN observer nations supported the statement, delivered by Indonesia’s permanent representative to the UN, Umar Hadi, in New York.
“The safety and security of UN peacekeepers are non-negotiable.
“We urge the UN Security Council to use all available instruments to strengthen protection for peacekeeping forces amid an increasingly dangerous situation,” the ministry quoted Umar as saying.
President Prabowo Subianto has said he “strongly condemns every heinous act that undermines peace and causes the deaths of our nation’s soldiers”. — AFP
