Reports

Introduction This position follows our media release welcoming the acceptance of a United Nations force by the Government of Indonesia. It seeks to look at what the role of such a force should be and how it should operate. In our…

Community Aid Abroad welcomes the authorisation by the United Nations security council of a multinational force to restore peace in East Timor. However it remains gravely concerned about more than 100,000 people who remain in refugee camps in West…

Church World Service is seeking $1 million to aid refugees from East Timor who have fled to West Timor in the wake of the violence following the independence vote (August 30). While international relief agencies are currently unable to…

Press conference with David Wimhurst Darwin, 16 September 1999 I'll start with the humanitarian aid program. You probably heard this morning - the Australian briefing - food drops could be planned for later today. This is Oz Aid and the…

After surveying the damage in the town of Baucau as a result of two weeks of violence and destruction, the acting head of the United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) concluded that houses used by the UN and…

appeal no. 01.33/99 15/09/1999 situation report no. 3 period covered: 20 May - 31 August 1999 While the core programmes consisting of health, disaster preparedness, and first aid training were effectively implemented, the Red Cross of the DPRK and the Federation…

(Says U.S. favors using sanctions, peacekeeping actions to stop it)(1730) U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke says the United States favors the use of sanctions, embargoes and international peacekeeping operations to end the growing practice of targeting unarmed civilians…

(Will contribute to force in limited but essential way) (710) President Clinton announced that the United States will support the United Nations peacekeeping mission in East Timor with communications and logistical aid, intelligence, airlifts of personnel and material, and coordination of…

World Vision is continuing to mobilise staff and relief goods in Darwin preparing to return to East Timor shortly after the first wave of peacekeeping troops. The agency, the last private relief group to leave Dili, will assist at…

This year, the focus of Australian assistance to East Timorhas been on a) assistance to conduct the UN Popular Consultation Process on autonomy for East Timor and b) humanitarian aid to deal with the growing internal refugee crisis in…