Rapports

WFP Briefing These are near verbatim excerpts from a press briefing by Kerren Hedlund of WFP on the change in the food distribution strategy and reports of malnutrition in East Timor. Dili 28 January 2000 Good morning. (Initially), just a…

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…

ROME - A food assessment mission by United Nations agencies to the strife-torn Moluccas islands of Indonesia has found "grave" food shortages among the tens of thousands of displaced people in the newly formed province of Northern Molucca, officials of…

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…