Reports

Secretary-General Kofi Annan leaves Tuesday leaving for an international tour that will include a summit meeting of the United Nations and members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), as well as a stopover in East Timor. Mr. Annan…

Security and Safety: INTERFET reported that the bridge at Beco, linking the road between Zumalai and Suai in Covalima district, is virtually impassable. Australian engineers have assessed the damage and have concluded that substantive repairs could only be made after…

I. INTRODUCTION 1. The mission consisted of 21 members1 and divided into two separate teams. One team visited the Ambon Island, especially the capital Ambon itself. Part of this team also went to Masuhi on Seram Island,…

There is a continuing need to return those displaced persons in West Timor to their communities of origin in East Timor, in order for rehabilitation, reconstruction and development to begin. The safe and orderly return transportation of displaced persons…

Oekussi: Exhumation of a mass grave in the Passabe area of the Oekussi (Ambeno) enclave is continuing. So far, the two Australian forensic experts have exhumed 26 bodies and the incomplete remains of 6 persons. Investigators believe that they may…

On the situation in East Timor New York, 3 February 2000 Mr. President, members of the Council, you have before you the report of the Secretary-General on the first three months of the Transitional Administration in East Timor. I trust…

Oekussi: Following the first official hand over ceremony yesterday from Interfet to the UNTAET Peacekeeping Force (PKF) for the eastern sector of the territory, the Ambeno enclave will be the second sector to be handed over from Interfet to…

A Japanese airlift of UNHCR's relief supplies from Surabaya on the Indonesian island of Java for East Timor refugees in West Timor ended on Tuesday. A C-130 aircraft of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force made a final flight on Tuesday.…

There is a continuing need to return up to 110,000 displaced persons in West Timor to their communities of origin in East Timor, in order for rehabilitation, reconstruction and development to begin. The safe and orderly return transportation of…

(New York, February 1, 2000) - Human Rights Watch today called for stepped-up efforts to bring to justice those responsible for the killing, mass destruction, and forced expulsions that wracked East Timor last September. In a report issued yesterday, the…