Rapports

Secretary-General Kofi Annan held talks Wednesday with the Foreign Ministers of Indonesia and Portugal to assess the current situation in East Timor following Security Council's action to establish a multinational force for the ravaged territory. Also today, the Secretary-General met with…

Press conference with David Wimhurst Darwin, 15 September 1999, 12:00PM I had hoped to persuade Mr. Martin to come and talk to you this morning but unfortunately he's up to his neck in work. He asks to be excused and…

CONTACT: Sue Aitkin or Cynthia Glocker, CARE USA, (404) 681-4579, ext. 203/453 ATLANTA (September 15, 1999) - CARE staff in West Timor are now assembling thousands of survival kits for displaced families living in camps outside the capital, Kupang. The kits…

Case IDN/TMP 150999 The International Secretariat of OMCT requests your URGENT intervention in the following situation in East Timor. Brief description of the situation The International Secretariat of OMCT remains gravely concerned over the unceasing reports from East Timor on the human…

By Marie McInerney DARWIN, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Aid workers are expected to quickly follow a multinational peace force into troubled East Timor, amid grave fears that hundreds of thousands of refugees were scavenging for food and at risk of…

By Tim Johnston JAKARTA, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday authorised a multinational force to restore order in ravaged East Timor and advance units were expected to arrive by the weekend. Australia, which will lead the operation, said…

More food aid has arrived in Darwin for desperate East Timorese who face starvation in the mountains near Dili. But it may be the weekend before it is sent. Another planeload of emergency rations touched down yesterday to add to the…

ROME - The United Nations World Food Programme today announced it is preparing to air drop emergency food into East Timor, using for the first time the innovative "snow drop" technology that will deliver food safely and efficiently to…

All MSF teams in Jakarta, Indonesia and Darwin, Australia are awaiting authorisation to re-enter East Timor to begin operations with the victims of the East Timorese crisis. There was a meeting in Jakarta today of NGOs readying to return to…

Advocacy & External Relations Unit Tel.: 1-212-963-4832/2380; Fax: 1-212-963-1312 OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS Humanitarian situation: OCHA has received reports of attacks on Internally Displaced Persons at two camps in Ermera and Bobomaro. Attacks have also reportedly taken place against…