Informes

Security : The security risk in most towns is assessed by INTERFET as low, but the towns of Dili, Maliana, Suai, Same, Ainaro, and Oecussi are assessed as medium. Almost all major roads are now assessed as secure and…

There is an urgent need to return East Timorese displaced from West Timor and elsewhere in Indonesia to their communities of origin in order for rehabilitation, reconstruction and development to begin as quickly as possible. The safe and orderly…

Press Release WHO/64 With the rainy season in East Timor due to begin in November, epidemic diseases, such as cholera and malaria, are becoming a major public health concern there, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned today. Moreover, tuberculosis (TB)…

Overview When the Portuguese left East Timor in 1975 they left behind a country severely underdeveloped, with little infrastructure. Indonesia illegally annexed East Timor in December of that year and since then it has been estimated that 200,000 people have died…

There is an urgent need to return East Timorese displaced from West Timor and elsewhere in Indonesia to their communities of origin in order for rehabilitation, reconstruction and development to begin as quickly as possible. The safe and orderly…

East Timor The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) completed a nutritional status survey in the districts of Baucau, Lautem, Viqueque, Ermera, Manufahi, and Ainaro. The Agricultural Working Group in Dili is currently working to ensure that maize seeds…

At a glance UNHCR calls on new Indonesian Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri, renews plea for access to refugee camps in West Timor. Nearly 30,000 refugees return as UNHCR begins repatriation from the West Timor port of Atapupu to Dili in East Timor. UNHCR…

Distr. GENERAL S/1999/1106 29 October 1999 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH LETTER DATED 29 OCTOBER 1999 FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ADDRESSED TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL I have the honour to convey the attached communication, dated 28 October 1999 (see annex), which I have received from…

Over the last week, the Australian Government quickly responded to an urgent request from the UN to provide water for a staging camp in Suai for people returning from West Timor to their homes in East Timor. Bottled water…

Security: INTERFET announced that the remaining TNI forces in Dili, with the exception of a small element at Komoro airfield, will move tonight to a camp near the waterfront prior to their imminent withdrawal from East Timor. Returns: Two IOM-chartered Indonesian…