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East Timor capital braces for 100,000 returnees
Thursday, 7 October 1999, 3:49 pm | United Nations
30 September -- United Nations relief agencies today continued delivery of emergency supplies to thousands of East Timorese scattered throughout the territory as the capital braced for the return of up to 100,000 displaced persons. More >>
International human rights inquiry into East Timor
Thursday, 7 October 1999, 3:49 pm | United Nations
30 September -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan today asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, to set up an international commission of inquiry on East Timor and to report the results by 31 December. More >>
UN says more East Timorese will need help
Thursday, 7 October 1999, 3:48 pm | United Nations
29 September -- As thousands of displaced people trekked back to the East Timor capital of Dili, the United Nations has raised its estimates of the number of people affected by the recent violence in the territory. More >>
UN efforts to restart civil society in East Timor
Thursday, 7 October 1999, 3:47 pm | United Nations
High-level talks continue at UN on efforts to restart civil society in East Timor. More >>
Fifth Committee Takes Up Financing Of UNAMET
Thursday, 7 October 1999, 3:45 pm | United Nations
Future phases of the United Nations operation in East Timor should be paid for according to the standard General Assembly formula as laid down in Article 17 of the Charter, the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) was told this afternoon, as it ... More >>
Special Session Of UNHCHR Adopts Resolution On ET
Thursday, 7 October 1999, 3:43 pm | United Nations
Requests Secretary-General to Create International Commission of Inquiry; Indonesia, Others Opposed in Roll-Call Vote More >>
UN Speakers Urge Even-Handed Approaches To Crises
Thursday, 7 October 1999, 3:41 pm | United Nations
"Rwanda demonstrates what Kosovo might have become, had we not intervened in 1999 and Kosovo demonstrates what Rwanda might have been, had we intervened in 1994", Bronislaw Geremek, the Foreign Minister of Poland, told the General Assembly this ... More >>
UN agencies step up aid to East Timor
Tuesday, 28 September 1999, 8:53 am | United Nations
27 September -- The United Nations humanitarian assessment missions conducted over the weekend have brought back a clearer picture of the level of destruction in East Timor, a UN spokesman said in New York today. More >>
UN Sec. General Spokesman On East Timor
Friday, 24 September 1999, 9:21 am | United Nations
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General. More >>
UN Security Council - RESOLUTION 1264 (1999)
Wednesday, 22 September 1999, 10:08 am | United Nations
RESOLUTION 1264 (1999) Adopted by the Security Council at its 4045th meeting on 15 September 1999 The Security Council, More >>
Transcript: UN Security Council On East Timor
Wednesday, 22 September 1999, 10:06 am | United Nations
Security Council S/PV.4045 Provisional Fifty-fourth Year, 4045th Meeting Wednesday, 15 September 1999, 2.15 a.m., New York More >>
High Commissioner for Human Rights on East Timor
Wednesday, 22 September 1999, 10:03 am | United Nations
Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in East Timor More >>
Security Council Mission To Jakarta And Dili
Friday, 17 September 1999, 8:39 am | United Nations
This is the report which triggered the resolution on sending a multinational force to Bumi Lorosae (East Timor). More >>
UN Secretary-General Expresses Extreme Concern
Wednesday, 8 September 1999, 11:18 am | United Nations
The following is a statement by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on East Timor, which was issued on Monday, 6 September: More >>
UN Statements On East Timor - Daily Highlights
Wednesday, 8 September 1999, 11:13 am | United Nations
Headlines: 1. Security Council mission en route to Jakarta as Secretary-General confers with world leaders on ways of stopping violence in East Timor. 2. UN staff in East Timor seek safety in guarded compound as Indonesia declares martial law to ... More >>
East Timor: Kofi Annan Statement To UN
Saturday, 4 September 1999, 3:39 pm | United Nations
The following is the text of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's address announcing the referendum result to the UN Security Council in New York. More >>
UN Daily Briefing - Comments On East Timor
Saturday, 4 September 1999, 12:32 am | United Nations
The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Fred Eckhard, Spokesman for the Secretary-General. More >>
UN appeals to Indonesia to control militia rampage
Saturday, 4 September 1999, 12:29 am | United Nations
The United Nations continued to pressure the Indonesian authorities to provide adequate security for its personnel after officials reported Friday that militia rampaged through Maliana and Liquica, burning homes and attacking residents. More >>
UNAMET Release On Ballot Irregularities
Saturday, 4 September 1999, 12:22 am | United Nations
The independent Electoral Commission began its hearing this morning into complaints received from the United Front for East Timor Autonomy concerning alleged irregularities in the popular consultation. More >>
UNAMET Briefing Summary for Friday, 3 September
Saturday, 4 September 1999, 12:19 am | United Nations
UNAMET Spokesman David Wimhurst informed correspondents that last night in Maliana militia surrounded UNAMET regional headquarters at around 6:30 p.m. Two houses belonging to local staff were burnt down and two local staff [drivers] were killed. Brimob ... More >>
