Informes

Cereal production, for harvest from May/June, is expected to be constrained by shortage of agricultural inputs and persistent insecurity in the provinces of the north, which comprise some 40 percent of the country's irrigated area. Due to low level…

Security and Safety: INTERFET reported that the bridge at Beco, linking the road between Zumalai and Suai in Covalima district, is virtually impassable. Australian engineers have assessed the damage and have concluded that substantive repairs could only be made after…

Dili, 07 February 2000 Police Assistance Program As part as the initiatives to improve law and order in East Timor, some 200 former Timorese police were identified as candidates to work alongside UNTAET CIVPOL in carrying out daily police duties.…

I. INTRODUCTION 1. The mission consisted of 21 members1 and divided into two separate teams. One team visited the Ambon Island, especially the capital Ambon itself. Part of this team also went to Masuhi on Seram Island,…

Pesc/00/13 Brussels, 4 February 20005833/00 (Presse 24) The European Union welcomes the publication of the report by the International Commission of Inquiry on gross violations of fundamental human rights and humanitarian law in East Timor. The international community, through the United Nations…

There is a continuing need to return those displaced persons in West Timor to their communities of origin in East Timor, in order for rehabilitation, reconstruction and development to begin. The safe and orderly return transportation of displaced persons…

Violence following the referendum for independence at the end of August last year, resulted in large numbers of deaths and massive population displacement. It also severely affected food distribution and marketing systems and essential services. An FAO/WFP Crop and…

Islamabad (Office of the United Nations Co-ordinator for Afghanistan), 4 February 2000 -- The measles epidemic that has broken out in Darra Souf district of Samangan Province in northern Afghanistan has now invaded new areas of the district, claiming…

Oekussi: Exhumation of a mass grave in the Passabe area of the Oekussi (Ambeno) enclave is continuing. So far, the two Australian forensic experts have exhumed 26 bodies and the incomplete remains of 6 persons. Investigators believe that they may…

Dili, 04 February 2000 Exhumation in Passabe Today, on the fifth day of the exhumation in Passabe (in the border area of Oekusi enclave), the team of investigators recovered, for the first time since the exhumation began, a body…