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Sample letters to the editor
Key UN Websites
Security
Council Report provides regular briefings on Security
Council action on Timor-Leste
see
below for additional sites
see here for issues of
the UN and Justice and
Accountability
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Xanana
Gusmao (center) with UNTAET head Sergio de Mello
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The UN in East Timor
see also
La'o
Hamutuk (LH) assessments and evaluations
2006
U.S.
Reps urge fully-integrated Timor mission (10/2406)
Commission of Inquiry Report Can
Help Timor-Leste Overcome Divisions, But Context of Recent Violence Needs
Attention (10/17/06)
Int'l Federation for East Timor
Urges Fully Integrated UN Mission Calls for Australian troops to forego separate
command (8/25/06)
Statement of Civil Society
Supporting a UN-led security presence in Timor-Leste
(8/06)
LH:
The Paradox of Aid in Timor-Leste
(6/06)
LH:
Suggestions for the Next United Nations Mission in
Timor-Leste (6/06)
2005
LH:
Assessment of UNMISET Advisors (8/05)
Randall Garrison,
“Who should harvest the fruits of victory: Constitution
Building in Timor-Leste (May 16,
2005)
2003
LH :
Open Letter to UNMISET (7/03)
Putting Gender Mainstreaming into
Practice:
Experience and lessons learned in UNTAET
(2003)
Ben Terrall,
The
UN in East Timor: Lessons
for Iraq?,
RADICAL SOCIETY Vol. 30, Nos. 3-4 (2003) 01-02
2002
LH:
Evaluating
the UN in East Timor (May 2002)
Jarat Chopra,
Building State Failure in East Timor,*
Development and Change (2002)
2001
Curt Gabrielson,
First
Impressions of the UN in East Timor (April 2001)
2000
Jarat Chopra,
The UN's Kingdom of East Timor,*
Survival (Autumn 2000)
more to come
Other Key UN-Related News
USETS- Letter on extending UN mission
(May 2006)
Timor Alliance for International
Tribunal: Statement to
the Technical Assessment Mission from UN Headquarters, New
York (Jan. 15, 2004)
ETAN Congratulates Country on UN Membership, Calls on UN to Work for Justice for New Nation
(September 26, 2002)
UN:
East
Timorese Youth Speaks to Security Council (May 2002)
UN
General Assembly Decides to Remove East Timor From List of Non-Self-Governing
Territories on Independence (see also
Security
Council Meets on E Timor)
Summary of ETAN's UN Press Conference with Filomena Barros dos Reis
East Timorese woman addresses UN Security
Council;
UN: Women & Peacekeeping (October
30, 2001)
Documents Related to 1999 U.N. vote
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Order From ETAN
The United Nations and East Timor:
Self-determination through popular consultation
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Agreement Between Indonesia and Portugal on East
Timor May 5, 1999
UN Secretary-General's Expectations Regarding Agreement
ANNEX to the agreements signed by Portugal and Indonesia at the UN
Modalities for the Popular Consultation of the East Timorese
Through a Direct Ballot
Popular Consultation Agreement Regarding Security
IFET letter to Kofi Annan The International Federation for East
Timor points out the major flaws in the UN process.(see International Federation for East Timor
IFET website
for other vote related statements)
Security Council Welcomes Portuguese, Indonesian Agreement
UN's International Commission of Inquiry on East Timor
- Human Rights Commission report on vote related violence
The UN has an
archive of the UN Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) material on the August 30, 1999 plebiscite
Security Council and General Assembly Resolutions
(pre-1999)
United Nations Security Council Resolutions on East Timor
(1975-76)
General Assembly Resolutions on East Timor
(1975-1982)
UN General Assembly Votes on East Timor
(1975-1982)
UN Human Rights Commission Resolutions
(1992, 1997)
Links to
more recent UN Security Council and General Assembly
resolutions
Decolonization Committee Testimony
Statements to the Committee on Decolonization
July, 2000
Statements to the Committee on Decolonization June,
1999
Statements to the Committee on Decolonization June -
July, 1998
See also the UN's
Decolonization
site
Extract
from Decolonization - the Task Ahead, a book published
by the U.N.
Other UN-affiliated Websites
Detailed documents and analysis of UN actions on East Timor are contained in Geoffrey
Gunn's book East Timor and the
United Nations: The Case for Intervention
Links to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN's media kit:
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
http://www.un.org/rights/50/kit5.htm