Rapports

OPERATIONS ACTIVITIES Return from Kupang (West Timor) to Dili (East Timor) by sea The IOM chartered ship, the KM Lambelu departed Kupang on 27 October with 1,798 persons for Dili. This was the fifth rotation between the two locations. An additional…

Appeal Target : US$ 1,223,379 Geneva, 26 October 1999 Dear Friends, Since the East Timor referendum results were made known, West Timor has been flooded with refugees to such a degree that the economy and infrastructure is overwhelmed. Refugees are mostly concentrated…

Refugees returning yesterday begin task of putting the territory back together again. Cameron W. Barr, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor DILI, EAST TIMOR Maria Catarina Napam cried when she saw Dili. She returned to East Timor from a makeshift camp in…

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 left Kris…

S/RES/1272 (1999) 25 October 1999 Adopted by the Security Council at its 4057th meeting, on 25 October 1999 The Security Council, Recalling its previous resolutions and the statements of its President on the situation in East Timor, in particular resolutions 384 (1975) of…

There was an influx of 641 returnees to Maliana on Monday and MSF undertook medical supervision from a mobile clinic at the Catholic School as well as an out patients department (OPD) at the hospital. At the Baucau location, MSF…

EAST TIMOR -- Early last week Indonesian Parliament endorsed the results of East Timor's vote for independence, and plans to transfer power officially by the end of the year. Some of the 200,000 East Timorese who fled or were…

At a glance East Timorese continue to walk across the border Total returns top 18,000 Security in West Timor still precarious East Timor East Timorese continued to cross from West to East Timor on foot with a group of 641 almost exclusively men arriving today,…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) East Timor INTERFET forces entered the Ambeno enclave for the first time on October 22. Food and non-food relief supplies have been pre-positioned in the…

The Security Council today decided to set up a United Nations authority in East Timor with a broad mandate designed to help the territory's transition to independence. By a unanimous vote the Council established the UN Transitional Administration for East…