Subject: LUSA: US maintains restrictions on arms
sales to Indonesia
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 07:53:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Sharon R.A. Scharfe" <pet@web.net>22 SET 98 - 09:49 East
Timor/US : House of Representatives maintains restrictions on arms sales to Indonesia
Washington, Sept. 22 (Lusa) - The US House of Representatives voted in Washington on
Monday to maintain restictions on arms sales to Indonesia.
The restrictions are part of foreign policy appropriations, stating that that US
weaponry sold to Indonesia must not be used in East Timor.
The US Senate approved in a similar clause earlier this month, stating that the US arms
sold to Jakarta "will not be used in East Timor". The House of Representatives
also said it supported an internationally supervised referendum in East Timor to find a
general solution to the political status of the occupied territory.
A representative of the East Timor Action Network, Lyn Frederiksson, welcomed the
decision of the House of Representaives, adding the decision was proof that "normal
relations with the Indonesian military are impossible without a fair solution to the case
of East Timor and a genuinely democratic transition in Indonesia".
Lusa/Fim
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