(사진제공=AP)

[유엔=AP/] 인도네시아가 6일(현지시간) 핵실험 금지 조약을 비준하여 유엔에 비준서를 제출하면서 아직도 이 협정에 비준하지 않고 있는 핵무기 보유국인 미국, 중국, 이집트, 인도, 이란, 이스라엘, 북한, 파키스탄에 압력을 행사하고 있다.

1990년 유엔의 포괄적 핵실험 금지조약에 의거 157개국이 비준을 마쳤으나 발효하기 위해서는 비준하지 않은 국가 44개국 가운데 핵무기와 핵 연구 원자로를 보유한 주요 8개국이 비준을 해야 한다.

인도네시아 외무장관은 핵확산 금지를 위한 환경을 조성하기 위한 유엔의 역할을 강조했다.

특히 인도네시아는 중동과 동남아시아의 비핵화들 위해 미얀마, 태국, 브루나이가 조속한 비준을 해주기를 강력히 지지하는 것으로 알려졌다.

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Indonesia pushes nuclear test ban treaty

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Indonesia's foreign minister on Monday challenged key nations that haven't ratified the treaty banning nuclear tests to follow his country's lead and approve it so that the convention can come into force.

Marty Natalegawa formally filed paper work for ratification at the United Nations, saying the country decided not to wait for all nuclear weapon states to ratify the treaty first because "there is a window of opportunity to advance the disarmament agenda."

Negotiated in the 1990s, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty has been ratified by 157 countries. But the treaty required 44 key countries with nuclear power or research reactors at the time to ratify it before it could take effect — including Indonesia.

With Indonesia's ratification, eight countries must still ratify the treaty before it comes into force — the U.S., China, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan. There has been reluctance of many of these countries to move first to ratify while their rivals have not yet done so, and North Korea has conducted two tests — one each in 2006 and 2009.

Natalegawa told reporters that Indonesia's government and parliament decided to proceed with ratification of the treaty, known as the CTBT, "with the hope and expectation that our ratification ... will encourage other ... countries to do likewise," especially the eight that are crucial to 　having the treaty take effect.

Asked specifically about Israel and Iran, he said treaty supporters have to deal with the lack of trust between these countries and others.

"But by ratifying the CTBT today, and various other efforts that we are making in the disarmament area, what we are saying is that ... these countries must have the courage to step out of their comfort zone and to take some kind of a calculated risk that their positive efforts will be reciprocated," Natalegawa said.

He said the U.N. should be helping to 　create conditions for these holdout countries "to take the right steps."

Natalegawa is a strong supporter of nuclear-free zones in the Mideast and Southeast Asia, and he encouraged the three Southeast Asian nations that haven't ratified the CTBT — Myanmar, Thailand and Brunei — to do so.

For the first time, Natalegawa said, all nuclear weapon states co-sponsored a General Assembly resolution last year supporting a Southeast Asian nuclear weapons free zone.

He said Southeast Asian nations were now beginning their internal consideration of establishing such a zone and "　　　from Indonesia's perspective we would like to see this happen (in the) middle of this year, if not sooner."