Reports

SN / 208 EAST TIMOR General situation The rapid and systematic deployment of the multinational force (INTERFET) in East Timor has created the security conditions needed to allow the return to their homes of East Timorese who had taken refuge in the…

AT A GLANCE Rate of returns remains low with only around 4,750 heading home since the weekend. The total number of people repatriated to East Timor stands at nearly 107,700 since UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration began the return…

There is an urgent need to return East Timorese displaced from West Timor and elsewhere in Indonesia to their communities of origin in order for rehabilitation, reconstruction and development to begin as quickly as possible. The safe and orderly…

Secretary-General Kofi Annan has warned that the on-going conflict in Afghanistan risks spinning out of control unless the international community awakens to its effect on the peace and security in the region and starts paying full attention to the…

Embassy of Vietnam would like to inform that the Government of Vietnam has decided some additional measures to facilitate relief supplies to flood-victims in Central Provinces of Vietnam: 1/The General Department of Customs will exempt from import duties all relief…

General: In recent weeks, motor vehicle traffic on the streets of Dili has increased markedly, with a concomitant increase in accidents. Commercial and trading activity has also grown, with an increasing range of food products now available. Prices however, remain…

Dili Office, East TimorInfectious Disease Surveillance & Epidemic Preparedness UnitImportant points: bloody diarrhoea and URTI in Dili, acute jaundice syndrome in Batugade and World AIDS day. Formal report: During week 47 of 1999, reports concerning 6,632 patients seen…

Reported by Linda Dorman, World Vision. With the flood water almost completely receded, World Vision staff are now able to reach most areas of Central Vietnam which were deluged by floods at the beginning of November. Flood waters reached up…

UNTAET/REG/1991/1 27 November 1999 The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (hereinafter: Transitional Administrator), Recalling resolution 1272 (1999) of 25 October 1999, whereby the United Nations Security Council, acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, decided to establish a United…

CARE is in East Timor to relieve suffering and to promote self-sufficiency of the Timorese people. CARE aims to enhance household livelihood security for the people of East Timor by helping them to meet their basic needs, promoting development,…