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February 2, 2005

Lusa - February 2, 2005

Dili – The United Nations should maintain a trimmed-down operation in East Timor after the scheduled withdrawal of its UNMISET mission…

Dow Jones Newswires - February 2, 2005

Veronica Brooks, Canberra – East Timor is poised to formally accept Australia's invitation to resume negotiations on a permanent maritime boundary…

February 1, 2005

Associated Press - February 1, 2005

Julian Lee and Cynthia Banham – An advertising campaign accusing the Prime Minister of stealing billions of dollars in oil and gas revenues from…

January 29, 2005

The Australian - January 29, 2005

East Timor's charismatic president Xanana Gusmao today made an emotional visit to the Indonesian prison where he was held for four…

January 28, 2005

Xinhua News - January 28, 2005

Jakarta – East Timor President Xanana Gusmao in a three-day visit here Friday sought to mend bilateral ties with Indonesia, hand…

Media Indonesia - January 28, 2005

Jakarta – Indonesia and Timor Leste (East Timor) have agreed to establish a permanent border crossing (PLB) for traditional…

Detik.com - January 28, 2005

Astrid Felicia Lim, Jakarta – The Timor Leste (East Timor) government has promised to lobby the US government in its congress, in February 2005…

January 27, 2005

Sydney Morning Herald - January 27, 2005

Julian Lee – The organisers of an advertising campaign that ambushed the Australian Open to highlight disputed maritime boundaries in the Timor…

January 23, 2005

Timor Sea Justice Campaign - January 23, 2005

Businessman Ian Melrose has recommenced his campaign of television commercials criticising the Australian Government's unfair treatment of East…

January 21, 2005

Lusa - January 21, 2005

Dili – Former pro-Indonesian militiamen are gradually slipping back into East Timor and resorting to banditry, a military source in…

Dow Jones Newswires - January 21, 2005

Veronica Brooks, Canberra – Australia is hopeful East Timor will in the next week or two accept its invitation to return to the negotiating table…

January 19, 2005

Lusa - January 19, 2005

Dili – Police in East Timor detained a man after an exchange of gunfire between security forces and an armed group near the border…

January 18, 2005

Jakarta Post - January 18, 2005

Jakarta – Former East Timor governor Abilio Soares vowed on Wednesday to continue his challenge against the retroactive application of…

January 17, 2005

Diario de Noticias - January 17, 2005

The secretary of state for defence's visit to East Timor, due to start tomorrow (Tuesday 18 January), has been postponed until the end…

Lusa - January 17, 2005

Dili – Australia and East Timor will resume in March talks to resolve their dispute over shared maritime boundaries and the carving up…

January 16, 2005

Sun-Herald - January 16, 2005

Adam Gartrell – Buses donated to East Timor by the NSW Government in 2002 have never been used and sit in an empty parking lot, makeshift homes to…

January 15, 2005

Northern Territory News (Australia) - January 15, 2005

Paul Dyer – The $7 billion Greater Sunrise gas project in the Timor Sea has been shelved by project operator Woodside Petroleum.

Woodside…

January 14, 2005

JSMP Press Release - January 14, 2005

Dili – It was announced on 21 December 2004 that the governments of East Timor and Indonesia had agreed on the formation of a Truth and Friendship…

January 10, 2005

Jakarta Post - January 10, 2005

Aboeprijadi Santoso, Amsterdam – Indonesia has asked East Timor to initiate a joint-commission of truth and reconciliation to resolve the issue of…

January 7, 2005

Jakarta Post - January 7, 2005

Kupang – Atambua Bishop Anton Pain Ratu has called on the Timor Leste government to grant amnesty to former pro-Jakarta militia as…

January 4, 2005

Interpress News Service - January 4, 2005

Bob Burton, Canberra – Despite his reputation as a progressive social thinker, former Australian Labor Party prime minister Gough Whitlam –…

January 1, 2005

December 29, 2004

Human Rights Watch - December 29, 2004

A law regulating demonstrations and assemblies passed by East Timor's parliament violates basic rights to free expression and assembly, Human…

December 28, 2004

The Guardian (UK) - December 28, 2004

After 25 years of repression and persecution, the tiny country of East Timor is racked with poverty and in desperate need of rebuilding. John…

December 27, 2004

Joint Statement on the Truth and Friendship Commission - December 27, 2004

1. In response to the proposition for the establishment of a UN Commission of Experts, on Tuesday, December 21, 2004, the Governments of Indonesia…

December 24, 2004

Associated Press - December 24, 2004

Indonesia has rejected UN plans for a commission that would study Jakarta's resolve to punish those responsible for human rights abuses in East…

December 23, 2004

Agence France Presse - December 23, 2004

The United States welcomed creation of a joint Indonesia-East Timor commission on the 1999 bloodshed in the former Portuguese colony, but made…

Financial Times (UK) - December 23, 2004

Shawn Donnan, Jakarta – Indonesia and East Timor announced this week they would establish a bilateral "truth and friendship commission" to heal…

Radio Australia - December 23, 2004

There have been mixed reactions this week to a proposal by Indonesia and East Timor to set up a joint commission to investigate the violence in…

The Guardian - December 23, 2004

John Aglionby, Jakarta – Indonesia and East Timor have agreed to set up a truth and friendship commission to address the issues of 1,500 murders…

December 22, 2004

Reuters - December 22, 2004

Washington – US officials do not want a planned Indonesian-East Timorese commission on 1999 violence in East Timor to supplant UN efforts to…

Agence France Presse - December 22, 2004

Indonesia and East Timor announced plans for a historic joint commission to draw a line under past hostilities and resolve the 1999 bloodshed that…

December 21, 2004

Jakarta Post - December 21, 2004

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Indonesia and its former province East Timor are set to reject an idea to establish a commission of experts to…

December 17, 2004

Lusa - December 17, 2004

Dili – East Timor's Serious Crimes Unit (SCU) indicted 14 people Friday for war crimes committed in 1999, in what the joint Dili-…

Agence France Presse - December 17, 2004

East Timor's cabinet has passed a landmark petroleum law that will open the door to foreign firms seeking oil and gas exploration…

December 16, 2004

Melbourne Age - December 16, 2004

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – The leaders of Indonesia and East Timor have quietly agreed to discuss setting up a "truth and friendship commission"…

The World Today - December 16, 2004

Reporter: Anne Barker

Eleanor Hall: East Timor has upped the ante in its dispute with Australia over oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea…

December 15, 2004

Green Left Weekly - December 15, 2004

[East Timor: Testimony. Elaine Briere. Between the Lines Books. 128 pages, 64 photographs, $56.95.]

Stephen Langford – For people involved…

December 14, 2004

Lusa - December 14, 2004

Dili – Dili understands the worries of investors over corruption in East Timor and the government is determined to crackdown on the…

December 11, 2004

Melbourne Age - December 11, 2004

Brendan Nicholson – Troops in East Timor were allegedly told to stop filing reports on Indonesia's role in the violence there.

Australia'S…

The Guardian - December 11, 2004

John Vidal, Dili – The only way to reach the village of Fatuhei in East Timor is a four-hour hike over tropical mountains. You are then in one of…

December 10, 2004

Kyodo News - December 10, 2004

East Timor wants the United Nations to extend its mission here for at least another year after its current mandate expires next May in order to…

December 9, 2004

Sunday Times (Australia) - December 9, 2004

An army whistleblower today found some backing for his claims after a government review found Australian troops in East Timor had been cut off…

December 3, 2004

The Australian - December 3, 2004

Nigel Wilson – John McCarthy, Australia's ambassador to Indonesia at the time of the Australian-led peacekeeping mission in 1999,…

Jakarta Post - December 3, 2004

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Over 270 people, who were deported from East Timor, were moved into a dormitory belonging to East Nusa Tenggara's…

December 2, 2004

Lusa - December 2, 2004

Dili – East Timor's human rights court has sentenced a senior member of a pro-Jakarta militia to 15 years in prison for organizing an attack on…

ABC Radio - December 2, 2004

Reporter: Anne Barker

Mark Colvin: A court in East Timor has jailed a former pro-Indonesia militia leader to 15 years jail for murder and…

December 1, 2004

Antara - December 1, 2004

Jakarta – The Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) here Wednesday condemned the expulsion of 253 Moslems from East Timor, saying the action was a…

Le Monde diplomatique - December 2004

Jean-Pierre Catry – Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, told the Security Council this year that: "Limited revenue and widespread…

Jakarta Post - December 1, 2004

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – After five hours of immigration checks in Motaain, on the border of East Timor and Indonesia, 62 people were deported…