Jakarta – Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi threw strong light on the constant event of cross-border criminal activities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, even in regards to the health elements, such as drug counterfeiting and cyberattacks on important health facilities.
The Indonesian minister conveyed the declaration during her speech at the 20 th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention versus Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) held virtually from the UN Headquarters in New York on Friday (Nov 13).
To address the difficulties of multinational organized criminal offenses, Marsudi stressed on the urgency of structure and maintaining cooperation between nations worldwide.
” There is no single nation that can fix this issue alone, not before and not during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the minister noted as communicated in a declaration from the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saturday.
Marsudi also revealed belief that the one size fits all approach could not be applied to battle all types of arranged criminal activities.
According to the minister, the qualities of global arranged criminal activities tended to differ throughout countries that demanded the embraced technique to be situational.
Marsudi explained that the method and option taken need to continuously adjust to the qualities of the criminal offense.
In this case, the minister repeated the significance of constantly adjusting to make sure that the UNTOC always remains pertinent in overcoming arranged global criminal activities both now and in the future.
In particular, the foreign minister also discussed the issue of Rohingya refugees as a kind of arranged human smuggling and trafficking in the region.
Indonesia currently hosts over 900 people, who fell victim to human trafficking and were displaced by the high seas.
To this end, the minister accentuated Indonesia’s unwavering concentrate on the significance of dealing with the source of the Rohingya issue through voluntary, safe, and dignified repatriation.
” For Indonesia, Myanmar is a house for Rohingya refugees,” Marsudi mentioned.
The UNTOC, adopted in Palermo, Italy, in 2000, is the primary global legal instrument controling the problem of trafficking personallies, individuals smuggling, and the illicit trade in guns.
Indonesia has been a celebration to the Convention because 2009.
Indonesia was picked to be among the joint sponsors with Italy and Morocco at the 20 th anniversary occasion of the adoption of the UNTOC that was initiated by the United Nations Workplace on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The deal, as the only sponsor from Asia, shows international acknowledgment for Indonesia’s role and leadership in a bid to combat multinational arranged criminal offenses.
Participants at the celebration also made up UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, President of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkir, and UNODC Executive Director Ghada Waly.
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