Informes

Press Release GA/AB/3318 Two draft resolutions, on the operation of the Development Account and on the financing of the United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET), were approved this morning, by the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary). The General Assembly…

General: East Timorese separatist leader Xanana Gusmao returned to Dili yesterday night, and appeared in public for the first time in Dili today. He will give a press conference tomorrow morning, followed by a brief address to UNAMET staff.…

Press Release SC/6743 - 19991022 Responding to the Secretary-General's September report on the situation in Afghanistan, the Security Council this afternoon: condemned the Taliban for their July military offensive and for sheltering terrorists; expressed grave concern about outside interference in the…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) East Timor On October 15, a helicopter reconnaissance mission traveled to Viqueque. Only 2,000 of the town's original 64,000 inhabitants had returned. The team reports…

By Kurt Schork DILI, East Timor, Oct 22 (Reuters) - About 2,000 refugees returned to East Timor by boat on Friday as the pace of U.N.-assisted repatriations from Indonesian-controlled West Timor accelerated. "This is a lot of work but it's one of…

Based on the International Peace Cooperation Law, the Government of Japan on October 22 (Fri) decided to extend material grant assistance to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for East Timorese displaced persons in…

ACT starts relief operation in East Timor Geneva, October 22, 1999 -Today ACT has shipped two vehicles from Darwin, Australia to Dili in East Timor. With the two vehicles expected to be in place by coming Tuesday, ACT member churches and…

Interfet forces continue to expand their operations in East Timor. Security operations are continuing, particularly in the western regions. Operation Strand, an airmobile clearance operation, has begun in the south west of East Timor. The aim of the operation is to…

The situation East Timor remains calm TNI have withdrawn from some Displaced Peoples' sites in West Timor which leaves some militia without firearms Repatriation continues: 750 deportees moved across the border and arrived in Maliana on Wednesday; 2,000 people arrived in…

United Nations agencies are all set to begin a new polio immunization campaign in Afghanistan, the Office of the UN Coordinator for the war-ravaged country said today in Islamabad, Pakistan. Almost six million doses of oral polio vaccine have been…