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View all search resultsPower must match responsibility, Yudhoyono tells conference
Yudhoyono told the conference that no nation should be too powerful to respect the rules and no nation should be too small to shape the future.
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Former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono delivers a keynote speech in a video recording on Thursday during the opening of the 5th Biennial International Conference on International Relations (ICON-IR) dan the 20th Congress of the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA) at Parahyangan Catholic University in Bandung. Yudhoyono called on all countries to actively involve in creating and realizing international order and world peace, which currently appears to be decided only by “strong” countries. (YouTube/@NgobrolinHI)
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ormer president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called on all countries to actively involve themselves in creating and realizing international order and world peace, which currently appears to be decided only by “strong” countries.
“No nation should be too powerful to respect the rules, no nation should be too small to shape the future,” Yudhoyono said in his keynote address at the opening of the 5th Biennial International Conference on International Relations (ICON-IR) and the 20th Congress of the Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA) at Parahyangan Catholic University in Bandung on Thursday.
He delivered the speech through a video recording because he is still undergoing routine health checks in the United States.
In the 11-minute video, he said that despite the Cold War era being over, no new international order has yet been created. The world is becoming more multipolar, but not always multilateral with competition among great powers becoming fiercer.
“We all know we cannot eliminate power politics; every country will continue to protect its sovereignty, security, prosperity and national interest,” he said.
“The real question is whether power will be exercised with responsibility and restraint.”
Yudhoyono, a two-term president, said a strong leader must understand when to use force and when to listen and open negotiation opportunities. He was referring to his experience in solving armed conflict with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) while at the same time handling the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.
