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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today (Thursday) said Indonesia formally agreed to give it free and unimpeded access to refugees across West Timor which hosts some 230,000 East Timorese accommodated in squalid makeshift camps. The agreement signed…

The United Nations and the Indonesian government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, guaranteeing the right of East Timorese refugees to return to their homeland. A U-N humanitarian aid spokeswoman, Afia Ali, says a group of around 300 East Timorese…

Security: East Timor security remains at UN Security Phase 3. Road movements were downgraded to a minimum of 2 vehicles and 2 staff on green routes. OCHA Jakarta reports that all UN agencies left Atambua today, due to the security…

East Timor From October 11-13, a four-person USAID team visited East Timor. The team met with representatives from INTERFET, UNAMET, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and various USAID-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs). On October 14, the Minister…

PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE This is a near verbatim transcript of the briefing given by Ian Martin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for East Timor, at the Turismo Hotel in Dili, East Timor - Thursday, 14 October 1999: IM: Good morning, I…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE (BHR) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) East Timor On October 11, a second relief convoy traveled to the town of Manatuto. Most of Manatuto's 12,000 residents have not yet returned from…

By Kurt Schork DILI, East Timor (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of East Timorese are hiding in the mountains across the rugged territory, hampering relief efforts, U.N. officials and aid workers said Wednesday. ''The arithmetic is very difficult to understand... but…

Prepared by the Dili Representative of the Humanitarian Coordinator The daily coordination meeting in Dili started with the observance of a minute of silence for the two international and two local UN colleagues who were killed in an ambush in…

This document is intended for public information purposes only. It is not an official UN document. At a glance More East Timor roads declared safe Repatriation effort to double in the coming days First overland repatriation planned EAST TIMOR After surveys by Interfet troops, UNAMET announced…