Informes

DILI, East Timor, Dec 28 (Reuters) U.N. civilian police in East Timor have exhumed three bodies in dense scrub near the coastal town of Liquica and suspect a further 16 will be found in nearby gravesites, a spokesman told…

Humanitarian experts with the UN mission in East Timor today denied reports that 20 people had died of starvation in the Manatuto area over the last week, the spokesman for the Secretary-General told journalists at Headquarters. The deaths were reported…

Dili, 23 December 1999 - Each day, hundreds of refugees still return from West Timor many needing medical attention for malaria, diarrhea, chest infections and other ailments. They will continue to receive assistance upon arrival, but now it will…

By Michael Elmquist, Chief, Military and Civil Defence Unit, Disaster Response Branch, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Geneva PREFACE In September 1999, at the request of the Humanitarian Coordinator for the East Timor Crisis, Mr. Ross Mountain, I had…

New information is underlined. Background: During the first two weeks of November 1999, six provinces in central Vietnam (Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, and Sing Dinh), as well as the city of Da Nang, experienced…

Wednesday, 22 December 1999: Humanitarian favouritism is threatening the lives and future of the most needy children and women in the developing world, UNICEF warned today at the launch of its annual humanitarian appeal for children and women in…

(New York, 22 décembre 1999) Monsieur le Président, Je voudrais me joindre à ceux qui vous ont exprimé leur reconnaissance pour l'organisation de ce débat. Je voudrais également remercier M. Annabi pour les informations qu'il nous a apportées et qui nous…

There is a need to return the remaining East Timorese displaced in West Timor and elsewhere in Indonesia to their communities of origin in order for rehabilitation, reconstruction and development to begin. The safe and orderly return transportation of…

Press Release - SC/6776 - 19991222 A donor conference held in Tokyo last week had resulted in pledges amounting to $522 million for East Timor, the Security Council was told this morning, as it heard a Secretariat briefing on the…

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations intends to field its own peacekeeping force for East Timor in February, one district at a time, a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday. Hedi Annabi, an assistant secretary-general for peacekeeping, told the…