Reports

DPAO 277/99 Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Now we have a mandate from the United Nations to mount operations I can talk in a little more detail about what we intend to do about the appalling events in East…

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…

The Palang Merah Indonesia (PMI - Indonesian Red Cross) and the International Committee of the Red Cross have formed a special task force to assist refugees fleeing violence in East Timor. To date over 150,000 refugees have fled to…

Thursday, 16 September 1999: The grave situation in East and West Timor has put hundreds of thousands of children and women in immediate peril, UNICEF said today. As many as 500,000 people have been displaced from their homes and…

Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will fund commercial aircraft to transport 300,000 Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDRs) from California to Darwin, Australia for an airdrop distribution over East Timor. USAID's cost for transporting the HDRs is…

SC/6727 Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter, the Security Council early this morning authorized the establishment of a multinational force under a unified command structure to restore peace and security in East Timor, to protect and support the United…

The Australian-led peacekeeping force will not be allowed to help thousands of refugees trapped in Indonesian-controlled West Timor. The Prime Minister, John Howard, says unless the Indonesian Government gives it permission, the UN force will not be allowed into West Timor. It…

STRASBOURG, 15.09.99 - The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted the following declaration at today's meeting of the Ministers' Deputies: 1. The Committee recalled its Declaration of 26 November 1991, in which it reaffirmed, inter alia, its…

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE EMERGENCY RESPONSE OFFICE Church World Service is the Humanitarian Agency of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. 35 Denominations & Communions Working Together to Meet Human Needs EMERGENCY ACCOUNT #976505 for $1 million Signed…

(15 septembre 1999) - Dans le cadre de l'application de la résolution 1264 des Nations unies, la France participera avec 500 militaires à la force multinationale engagée au Timor Oriental. Dès ce soir, la frégate "Vendémiaire" arrivera dans la zone…