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View all search resultsStability in Gaza a must for Board of Peace, Sugiono says
Indonesia has stressed the importance of providing stability through the United States-led Board of Peace to pave the way for lasting peace in Gaza, amid domestic concerns about Jakarta's planned troop deployment to the region.
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Desertified view: A child walks down a hill overlooking a camp for displaced Palestinians on Feb. 14 during hazy, dusty weather in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP/Bashar Taleb)
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ndonesia has stressed the importance of providing stability through the United States-led Board of Peace (BoP) to pave the way for lasting peace in Gaza, amid domestic concerns about Jakarta's planned troop deployment to the region.
In a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio last Thursday in Washington, Foreign Minister Sugiono reiterated the BoP’s role in creating stability that would allow humanitarian access in war-torn Gaza.
“Efforts to maintain stability [in Gaza] must be part of the path toward sustainable peace through the two-state solution,” Sugiono said, as quoted from a statement released by his office on Sunday.
Indonesia has long been advocating for the two-state solution to solve the conflict in the Middle East, in which an independent Palestinian state can be recognized and coexist with Israel.
According to State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott, Rubio expressed gratitude to Sugiono for Indonesia’s support for US President Donald Trump’s BoP as a founding member and “for its commitment to post-conflict reconstruction in Gaza”.
Sugiono further reaffirmed Indonesia’s role in the board’s peacekeeping mission on Friday, a day after President Prabowo Subianto pledged to deploy “up to 8,000 or more” Indonesian troops to Gaza at the BoP inaugural meeting in Washington on Thursday.
“This is a force assigned under a mandate to maintain peace, composed of various elements whose core duty is to maintain stability,” he told reporters in Washington on Friday local time, as quoted from a video statement from the Presidential Secretariat.
