Rapports

Press Secretary Sadaaki Numata: Good afternoon. First on East Timor. In my last press conference on Friday 17 September I talked about Japan's plan to extend emergency humanitarian assistance and other assistance to East Timor. There has been one…

Advocacy & External Relations Unit Tel.: 1-212-963-4832/2380; Fax: 1-212-963-1312 Humanitarian response: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): An inter-agency team is scheduled to visit Dare today to assess the humanitarian conditions of internally displaced persons in the camp…

Provisional edition - Situation in East Timor - Recommendation 1421 (1999)1 1. Assembly debate on 21 September 1999 (27th Sitting). See Doc. 8534, report of the Political Affairs Committee (rapporteur: Mr de Puig). Text adopted by the Assembly on 21 September…

This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations. Quoted text from this briefing note may be attributed to the UNHCR spokesperson named below Kris Janowski The High Commissioner…

Doc. 8534 Political Affairs Committee Rapporteur : Mr Lluis Maria de Puig, Spain, Socialist group Summary The annexation of East Timor by Indonesia on 17 July 1976 has never been accepted by the international community. On 30 August 1999, in a referendum organised…

Advocacy & External Relations Unit Tel.: 1-212-963-4832/2380; Fax: 1-212-963-1312 Humanitarian situation: The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): The High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, traveled to Jakarta on Friday and Sunday visited affected populations in West Timor. During…

Food stocks in West Timor are rapidly dwindling under the pressure of 160,000 refugees who have escaped bloodshed in East Timor, says World Vision aid worker James Addis. "It looks as if the camps have enough food for now, and…

The first contingent of a multinational force led by Australia arrived in East Timor on Monday and set about immediately to secure key positions, including the United Nations compound in the capital Dili, a UN spokesman said in New…

Background In early September, pro-integrationist militias in East Timor conducted a week-long rampage in several cities and towns following a UN-supported vote for independence from Indonesia. Hundreds of civilians were killed and more than 300,000 were displaced from their homes in…

UN forces arrived in Dili yesterday, but E. Timorese refugees in the west remain at risk. Cameron W. Barr, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor KUPANG, INDONESIA - Early this month Mariano, a little boy with round eyes and a…