East Timor
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April 8, 2011
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor - April 8, 2011
Australian Associated Press - April 8, 2011
Adam Gartrell – Australia should maintain a military presence in East Timor as late as 2020, a new report recommends.
April 6, 2011
ABC News - April 6, 2011
Sara Everingham and staff – East Timor's deputy prime minister has confirmed his country has rejected Australia's proposal to establish a refugee processing centre on Timor's soil.
April 4, 2011
ABC News - April 4, 2011
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen says he does not accept reports East Timor is not in favour of housing a regional processing centre for asylum seekers.
April 1, 2011
ABC News - April 1, 2011
Matt Brown – More cold water has been poured on plans to establish an asylum seeker processing centre in East Timor, with the UN refugee agency saying the country has not approached it
March 31, 2011
Melbourne Age - March 31, 2011
Tom Allard and Kirsty Needham – East Timor has reaffirmed its hostility to a refugee processing centre on its territory, even as the Gillard government insists it will still proceed wit
Australian Associated Press - March 31, 2011
Karlis Salna – East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has given his strongest indication yet that he is opposed to the idea of a refugee processing centre being built on his country
March 30, 2011
Australian Associated Press - March 30, 2011
Karlis Salna – Prime Minister Julia Gillard plans to pursue an agreement with East Timor over her proposal for a regional refugee processing centre despite the fledgling nation all but
News ›› East Timor ›› Analysis & Opinion
Crikey.com - March 30, 2011
Damien Kingsbury – The government's East Timor asylum seeker solution is dying a death of a thousand cuts. It is a slow and painful process and unedifying to watch it writhe in agony.
Reuters - March 30, 2011
Brian Padden – Indonesia's unreserved support for East Timor's membership to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations reinforces the growing ties between two countries that were on op
March 29, 2011
Sydney Morning Herald - March 29, 2011
Dylan Welch – The veil of secrecy obscuring what Australia knew about Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor will be pulled back a little, after a successful court challenge against th
Australian Associated Press - March 29, 2011
Karlis Salna – East Timor remains open to discussing Australia's plan for a regional refugee processing centre to be built on its territory but would like to delay the negotiations.
Melbourne Age - March 29, 2011
Tom Allard and Kirsty Needham – East Timor has dismissed Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's proposal for a refugee processing centre on its soil on the eve of a multinational sum
March 28, 2011
Australian Associated Press - March 28, 2011
Jeremy Thompson – Immigration Minister Chris Bowen says an agreement for an offshore immigration centre on East Timor will not be reached at a regional meeting in Bali this week.
March 27, 2011
Agence France Presse - March 27, 2011
Dili – United Nations police have returned full control of East Timor to the national force, more than four years after bloody clashes threatened to push the country into civil war.
Australian Associated Press - March 27, 2011
The federal government will attempt to rally support for a regional asylum seeker processing centre in East Timor during a meeting in Bali this week.
March 23, 2011
Jakarta Globe - March 23, 2011
Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia has agreed to step up cooperation in solving border problems with East Timor, its former territory, an Indonesian presidential spokesman said on Tuesday.
Australian Associated Press - March 23, 2011
Karlis Salna – Indonesia says the Bali Process remains the best forum for achieving a regional agreement on how best to deal with asylum seekers.
March 22, 2011
Jakarta Globe - March 22, 2011
Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia and East Timor on Tuesday agreed to step up cooperation in solving border problems, said an Indonesian presidential spokesman.
March 16, 2011
Australian Associated Press - March 16, 2011
Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor has discussed the so-called East Timor solution with Indonesian officials as Australia prepares to make its case for the plan at the Bali Process
March 10, 2011
News ›› East Timor ›› Mining & Energy
Business Spectator - March 10, 2011
A treaty between Australia and East Timor covering the Greater Sunrise liquefied natural gas development is at risk, according to a report in The Australian, with East Timor threatening
March 9, 2011
News ›› East Timor ›› Analysis & Opinion
The Nation (Thailand) - March 9, 2011
The young nation's application to join Asean should be approved despite the problems it may cause to the grouping's integration plan
News ›› East Timor ›› Mining & Energy
Reuters - March 9, 2011
Australia sees no need to intervene in the dispute between oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum Ltd and East Timor over how to develop the vast Greater Sunrise gas field, Resources M
March 7, 2011
Jakarta Post - March 7, 2011
Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – The government has said that Indonesia would support Timor Leste's full membership in ASEAN – despite opposition from other countries.
March 4, 2011
Associated Press - March 4, 2011
Jakarta, Indonesia – East Timor has applied for a membership in the Association of Southeast Asia Nations. Its application was submitted Friday by East Timor's foreign minister.
March 3, 2011
Australian Associated Press - March 3, 2011
Karlis Salna – East Timor's main opposition party has reaffirmed its objections to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's regional refugee processing centre plan, vowing to make it a
Associated Press - March 3, 2011
Canberra – Malaysia's prime minister said Thursday he remained undecided on supporting Australia's plan to make East Timor a regional hub for processing asylum seekers, adding that cost
Australian Associated Press - March 3, 2011
Adam Gartrell – Malaysia's support for Prime Minister Julia Gillard's proposed East Timor asylum seeker processing centre could hinge on who's expected to pay for it.
Agence France Presse - March 3, 2011
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono voiced support Thursday for East Timor's bid to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, his spokesman said.
February 26, 2011
Sydney Morning Herald - February 26, 2011
Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – The United Nations Security Council has urged East Timor to stop granting impunity for serious crimes as it extended the stay of the UN mission in the country.
February 25, 2011
Al Jazeera - February 25, 2011
Drew Ambrose, Dili – The United Nations has said it will extend its mandate for peacekeepers in East Timor for another year.
February 24, 2011
United Nations Press Release - February 24, 2011
New York – The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations mission in Timor-Leste for another year so that it can continue to assist the fledgling nation consolida
Agence France Presse - February 24, 2011
United Nations – The UN Security Council on Thursday called on East Timor to take action to strengthen the "credibility" of its police force as it extended the stay of the UN mission in
February 17, 2011
Amnesty International Public Statement - February 17, 2011
AI Index: ASA 57/001/2011
February 12, 2011
Jakarta Post - February 12, 2011
Yemris Fointuna – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who led the 774/Satya Yudha Bakti (SYB) infantry battalion from 1986 to 1988, appeared moved when he briefed some 1,000 soldiers pa
February 10, 2011
The Australian - February 10, 2011
Mark Dodd – East Timor's defence chief has blasted Australia for its tardy response in helping the half-island state develop a patrol boat fleet to tackle people-smuggling.
February 9, 2011
East Timor and Indonesia Action Network News Release - February 9, 2011
A coalition of groups in Timor-Leste is urging the United Nations Security Council "to take concrete, effective actions to end impunity for those who directed and committed crimes again
February 8, 2011
Timor-Leste National Alliance for an International Tribunal (ANTI) - February 8, 2011
8 February 2011
Excellencies, Members of the United Nations Security Council
United Nations, New York, New York, 10017 USA
February 6, 2011
News ›› East Timor ›› Analysis & Opinion
Jakarta Globe - February 6, 2011
Dalih Sembiring – East Timor, officially known as Timor-Leste, is experiencing an economic boom.
February 3, 2011
The Australian - February 3, 2011
Paul Maley and Peter Alford – Failed asylum-seekers processed under Julia Gillard's East Timor plan would be transferred to partner countries who would then swap them for prospective re
February 2, 2011
Jakarta Post - February 2, 2011
Jakarta – Twenty five families or 67 people of Indonesian citizens from East Timor who had lived in East Nusa Tenggara for 11 years had left for Timor Leste under the repatriation progr
Brisbane Times - February 2, 2011
Erik Jensen – East Timor would be responsible for the legal processing and resettlement of asylum-seekers trying to reach Australia, using its laws and diplomatic relationships, accordi
Australian Associated Press - February 2, 2011
Adam Gartrell – The federal government's plan for an asylum seeker processing centre in East Timor has come under fresh attack after a document outlining details of the proposal leaked
January 30, 2011
Bangkok Post - January 30, 2011
East Timor is seeking to become the 11th member of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations.
January 29, 2011
The Australian - January 29, 2011
Greg Sheridan, Foreign editor – Julia Gillard's proposal for a regional refugee processing centre in East Timor has been dealt a crippling blow by Malaysia's Prime Minister, Najib Tun R
January 27, 2011
Melbourne Age - January 27, 2011
Lindsay Murdoch – A Victorian charity has hired architects to design a hotel in the ruins of the centuries-old Balibo fort in East Timor – where five Australian-based journalists were k
January 25, 2011
News ›› East Timor ›› Mining & Energy
ABC News - January 25, 2011
Sara Everingham – A bitter dispute between East Timor's Government and the Australian-based oil and gas company Woodside is continuing.
January 24, 2011
Deutsche Presse Agentur - January 24, 2011
Sydney – East Timor has again rebuffed Canberra's proposal that it host an immigration detention centre where asylum seekers arriving in Australia could be held while their applications
Melbourne Age - January 24, 2011
Lindsay Murdoch – Another senior East Timor leader has questioned Prime Minister Julia Gillard's plan to build a regional centre to process asylum seekers in East Timor, suggesting Aust
January 20, 2011
Agence France Presse - January 20, 2011
Dili, East Timor – East Timorese police evicted more than 1,000 long-term squatters from a former Indonesian barracks in Dili Thursday, sparking a rowdy protest.