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The commander of the multinational force in East Timor will lead an advance party to Dili today, to prepare the ground for the first troops.The mission comes as the first warships head for the territory. The commander of the International…
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By Lewa Pardomuan DILI, East Timor, Sept 18 - Nine warships from a multinational U.N. peace force set sail for East Timor on Saturday, a day before its commander is scheduled to hold talks with Indonesia's military in the shattered…
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The United Nations' refugee chief, Sadako Ogata, is on her way to Jakarta to meet with Indonesian officials on the East Timor crisis. Her spokesman says the UN High Commissioner for Refugees is expected to travel to Kupang, the capital…
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Geneva (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) began an operation on Friday to assist the victims of the violence in East Timor. Two aircraft flew into Dili with two tonnes of rice and 11 tonnes…
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Australian aid groups in Darwin are calling on the international community to give as much attention to East Timorese in West Timor as they are to East Timor. The Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA), the umbrella organisation for non-government…
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SC/6730 Adopts resolution 1265 (1999) unanimously; decides to further review recommendations of Secretary-General The Security Council this afternoon decided to immediately establish a mechanism to review further the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General on the…
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E/CN.4/S-4/CRP.1 COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Fourth special session 23-24 September 1999 I. INTRODUCTION 1. The Commission on Human Rights has been seized with the situation of human rights in East Timor for a number of years. At its fifty-fifth session, the Commission had…
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ROME - The United Nations World Food Programme said that the first humanitarian airdrops were completed successfully in East Timor today, with the delivery of desperately needed food and blankets to tens of thousands of people hiding in the…
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This report includes: A) Indonesia East Timor B) Afghanistan C) Angola D) Ethiopia E) Central Africa: Congo/Brazzaville and D.R. Congo. From Manuel Aranda da Silva, Chief, Technical Support Service. Available on the WFP Home Page at http://www.wfp.org/ or by electronic mail…
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Cameron W. Barr, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor JAKARTA, INDONESIA - East Timorese activists used to complain that their fight for independence from Indonesia suffered terribly from obscurity. If the world really knew their plight, they argued, it would…
