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July 27, 2001
Lusa - July 27, 2001
July 26, 2001
Lusa - July 26, 2001
Negotiations between East Timor, Australia and oil companies working Timor Gap offshore fields have bogged down over tax issues…
July 25, 2001
Reuters - July 25, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Irwin Arieff, United Nations – The United Nations said on Wednesday it would reduce its presence in East Timor after the tiny territory gained its…
July 24, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - July 24, 2001
Mark Dodd – The Nobel laureate Bishop Carlos Belo has indicated support for a Fretilin victory at the election for a Constituent…
Suara Timor Lorosae - July 24, 2001
A joint campaign by seven political parties to hit the hustings in Lospalos Monday was called off because transportation promised by…
Lusa - July 24, 2001
East Timor's official television and radio station's have begun broadcasting the second round of campaign messages allotted political parties and…
July 21, 2001
Melbourne Age - July 21, 2001
Mark Dodd, Aileu – When it came time to harvest new varieties of sweet potato in an agriculture project in Aileu, an East Timor mountain town, the…
July 19, 2001
Timor Post - July 19, 2001
Avelinho Coelho, the secretary-general of the Timor Socialist Party (PST) said the Constituent Assembly to be formed after the 30…
Jakarta Post - July 19, 2001
Yogyakarta – Some fifty members from East Timorese prointegration groups held a modest ceremony on Tuesday at Yogyakarta's East Timor…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 19, 2001
Mark Dodd, Viqueque – East Timorese voters have sent their political leaders a strong message to end violence and work towards improving living…
July 18, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - July 18, 2001
Craig Skehan – An official history of Australia's role in East Timor's transition to independence reveals that the Federal Government knew more…
The Australian - July 18, 2001
A Defensive Alexander Downer undoubtedly has his eyes on the history books with the publication of the Government's apologia for its handling of…
The Australian - July 18, 2001
Don Greenlees, Jakarta – Seated in a conference room of the Sheraton Nusa Dua Hotel in Bali, an agitated Indonesian president B.J. Habibie thumped…
Lusa - July 18, 2001
Three days after the start of the official campaign period for August 30 elections, the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) became the…
Lusa - July 18, 2001
East Timorese electoral officials Wednesday acknowledged "systematic failures" in the preparation of voters' lists for the August 30…
Lusa - July 18, 2001
A team dispatched to verify rumors of planned election violence in East Timor reported Wednesday they had found the territory's "most…
July 17, 2001
Australian Associated Press - July 17, 2001
Karen Polglaze, Canberra – A new book on Australia's foreign policy approach to East Timor from 1998 to 2000 is highly selective and partisan,…
Lusa - July 17, 2001
East Timor's Independent Electoral Commission has rejected more than 70 potential candidates for the August 30 constituent assembly elections. The…
July 16, 2001
Reuters - July 16, 2001
Dili – East Timor's defacto parliament, the National Council, was dissolved on Saturday, one day before the start of political campaigning for a…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 16, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – Campaigning for East Timor's first democratic elections began at the weekend, but hopes for a smooth start were marred by a…
UN News - July 16, 2001
East Timor's transitional administration saw a flurry of moves today and over the weekend as political activity began to heat up in the half-…
The Australian - July 16, 2001
Tony Kevin – Tomorrow, Alexander Downer launches a book on Australia's role in East Timor between 1998 and 2000. One wonders why he should wish to…
South China Morning Post - July 16, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Campaigning began yesterday for East Timor's first election, but confusion reigns in the minds of voters about what…
July 15, 2001
Green Left Weekly - July 15, 2001
Jon Land – The start of the formal election campaign period for East Timor's new Constituent Assembly began on July 15. Some 16 political parties…
July 13, 2001
Lusa - July 13, 2001
East Timor's Independent Electoral Commission Friday determined the order in which the territory's 16 political parties and five…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 13, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – Two days before the start of East Timor's election campaign for a Constituent Assembly, the territory's United Nations…
July 11, 2001
UN News - July 11, 2001 (abridged)
With Wednesday passing as the final deadline for East Timorese to challenge the list of proposed candidates for the upcoming elections…
Green Left Weekly - July 11, 2001
On July 5, representatives of the East Timor Transitional Cabinet, the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor and the Australian…
July 10, 2001
Melbourne Age - July 10, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – Indonesian security forces have arrested 23 hardcore militiamen including the notorious leader of the gang involved in the 1999…
Associated Press - July 10, 2001
Dili – As a UN security team toured refugee camps near Indonesian controlled West Timor's border with East Timor Tuesday, officials of…
Agence France Presse - July 10, 2001
Jakarta – UN officials in East Timor raised concern Tuesday about the fate of refugees who chose to be repatriated from squalid camps in Indonesia…
Lusa - July 10, 2001 (abridged)
Only 666 of the 1,250 East Timorese refugees Indonesian authorities said wanted to return to their homeland last month have been able…
July 7, 2001
The Age - July 7, 2001
The UN has its own investigation team in East Timor. Some prosecutions have started against minor players. But the power to investigate stops…
July 6, 2001
Source unknown - July 6, 2001
East Timor's big hope for independence was signed yesterday – a pact ensuring the soon-to-be nation has economic security through oil and gas…
Agence France Presse - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – Australia and East Timor signed a multi-billion dollar agreement Thursday on dividing royalties from oil and gas reserves in the Timor…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 6, 2001
Dili – East Timor's political parties have agreed to sign a non-violence pact to avoid bloodshed before and after historic elections…
July 5, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - July 5, 2001
The new Timor Gap agreement was signed today with the tensions of tough negotiations still apparent.
The document was signed by Foreign…
Sydney Morning Herald Editorial - July 5, 2001
The Prime Minister, Mr Howard, says it is "generous". The Northern Territory Chief Minister, Mr Burke, calls it "extremely generous". The…
The Australian - July 5, 2001
Nigel Wilson – Billions of dollars in Timor Sea investment remain in doubt despite the signing in Dili today of a framework agreement on sharing…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 5, 2001
Mark Dodd, Saburai village – After leaving the squalor of a refugee camp in West Timor, one of militia leader Victor Lopes's first acts on…
July 4, 2001
Melbourne Age - July 4, 2001
[This is an exclusive extract from "Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy", the second in the Quarterly Essay…
Australian Financial Review - July 4, 2001
Geoffrey Barker – It will be the ironic fate of independent East Timor to have its key international economic and security relationships with…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 4, 2001
Craig Skehan – East Timor will receive $7 billion over 20 years under a historic agreement with Australia on the sharing of oil and gas revenues…
Green Left Weekly - July 4, 2001
Vanya Tanaja, Liquica – Amidst the rubble of government offices which the jungle is starting to reclaim stands a flagpole flying, not the…
July 3, 2001
Lusa - July 3, 2001
East Timor's 16 parties and UN transition administration have completed the draft of a "National Unity Pact", which expresses support for the…
Suara Timor Lorosae - July 3, 2001
Ten political parties, out of the 16, registered with the Independent Electoral Commission are disappointed with the aid package made…
Lusa - July 3, 2001
The first major trial of atrocities committed in East Timor by Indonesian forces and proxy militias got underway in Dili Tuesday, with a three-…
July 2, 2001
Reuters - July 2, 2001
Wendy Pugh, Melbourne – In an upheaval of Australia's energy market, petroleum and pipeline companies are racing to nail down multi-billion-dollar…
UN News - July 2, 2001
Approximately 93 per cent of the estimated population in East Timor have been registered in advance of upcoming elections, the United Nations…
June 29, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - June 29, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The United Nations has told the people of East Timor they will be virtually self-governing from September 15 – but that the UN…