Reports

News Release No. 27/00 The Asian Development Bank has approved a US$1 million technical assistance grant to East Timor to build capacity for the management of parliamentary business, justice administration and public sector management. Although East Timor is not yet…

IP/00/294 Brussels, 23 March 2000 - Meeting today in the margins of the Lisbon European Council with Xanana Gusmao and President of the European Council, the Prime Minister of Portugal, Antonio Guturres, European Commission President Romano Prodi reaffirmed the European Commission's…

ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA =AD The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is providing much-needed disaster relief to thousands of people affected by the unusually severe snowfall in large areas of Mongolia, which has caused the death of well more than one…

East Timor=B4s independence leader Xanana Gusmao thanked Finland for its support and solidarity during the independence struggle, including the Finnish contribution during its EU presidency last year, and presented his host, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, with a traditional East…

S/2000/236 Letter dated 21 March 2000 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council I have the honour to convey the attached communication, dated 16 March 2000, which I have received from the Acting Permanent Representative of Australia…

Haze Situation and Impacts As reported by the ASEAN Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC) in Singapore, following a short period of drier weather over Sumatra and the region towards the last week of February 2000, an increasing number…

Returns: The total number of organised and spontaneous returns into East Timor from West Timor, other parts of Indonesia, Macau and Australia now stands at 154, 292. On 21March, an IOM land convoy repatriated 186 persons from Atambua to Batugade.…

For Immediate Release Nobel Laureate Jose Ramos-Horta Says International Community Must Be Prepared For Indonesian Prosecutions To Falter World Must Support Indonesian Democracy Not Its Military Calling the situation of East Timorese refugees in Indonesia "a criminal matter," East Timorese Nobel Laureate Jose Ramos-Horta…

Four years of severe flooding and drought coupled with structural deficiencies in the agricultural system have created a food security crisis in North Korea. The annual food deficit of approximately 1,000,000 metric tons has been addressed by large donations…

Dili, 22 March 2000 THREE CHILDREN DIE IN BAUCAU EXPLOSION Three boys were killed and one seriously wounded yesterday when they accidentally detonated what appears to have been an artillery or a mortar shell, uncovered at the grounds of a…