Informes

ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta, (28 January) - The ASEAN Secretariat announced today that ASEAN and Australia had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a joint initiative to support the implementation of "Immediate Action Plan (IAP) Field Training Exercise for Prevention…

There is a continuing need to return up to 110,000 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…

"Promoting human rights, particularly the rights of women and girls, is one of our highest priorities in Afghanistan today," Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Karl Inderfurth said in remarks to the New York Council on Foreign Relations…

The last few months have once again involved an extensive amount of activity for the Emergencies Support Unit (ESU) and for the Asia section within CAFOD. This has been a result of the intensification of ongoing emergencies in countries…

S/2000/53 I. INTRODUCTION 1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 1272 (1999) of 25 October 1999, by which the Council decided to establish the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) for an…

General: In line with the policy to target vulnerable groups where possible, a common set of criteria was agreed today for the three tracks of rapid rehabilitation projects (RRP). Projects which include, or, benefit vulnerable groups will be considered favourably…

Dili, 26 January 2000 SRSG, Sergio Vieira de Mello met yesterday with Indonesia Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab, in Jakarta, where he arrived after visiting West Timor on Monday and Tuesday. Today SRSG met other Foreign Ministry officials, the speaker of the…

Dili, 25 January 2000 SRSG Sergio Vieira de Mello arrived today in Jakarta after his first official visit to West Timor. The two-day trip to West Timor included visits to three refugee's camps and meetings with local authorities. On Monday, in…

There is a continuing need to return up to 110,000 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…

An estimated 370,000 people in East Timor were burnt out of their houses in the violence following the vote on autonomy on August 30th, 1999. It was clear that the international community would have to pull out every stop…