Indonesia on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) called for the disarmament of nuclear weapons as the only guaranty to prevent the danger posed by nuclear weapons to the survival of human beings, according to Antara. Such an appeal was extended in the second preparatory committee meeting of the nuclear weapons non-proliferation conference in Geneva which happened to be part of a review conference of the non-proliferation of nuclear weapon to be held in 2010. The Third Secretary of the Indonesian permanent representative office in Geneva, Widya Sadnovic, in a press release made available to Antara News in London on Wednesday said Indonesia in the meeting reiterated the position of NAM on the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation as specified in the various documents of the conferences and NAM summits. The meeting, which started on April 28 and would end on May 9, 2008, was attended by around 190 members countries of the nuclear weapons non-proliferation treaty (NPT) in which the objective was to review the provisions of the NPT implementation, decisions and agreements, thus assessing the adherence of member countries in implementing the NPT chapters. NAM member countries in the NPT were committed to fulfilling the agreements produced in the review conferences in 1995 and 2000 with an aim to stop the proliferation of the whole nuclear weapons. According to Widya Sadnovic, all NAM group expressed their agreement to the nuclear disarmament and the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in a balanced manner. NAM group also expressed their concern over the slow process of nuclear disarmament by countries having nuclear weapons as part of their defense system and they even continued to modernize their nuclear fleet. In this context, NAM as the biggest group in NPT proposed that the next review conference of the non-proliferation treaty of nuclear weapons should be able to formulate the time frame of the chapter VI implementation and mechanism in a bid to verify the member.
