Rome – East Timor's resistance movement Conselho Nacional da Resistjncia Maubere (CNRM) has announced that it will apply for observer status at the Socialist International (SI) during this weeks IS Congress in Rome. East Timorese activist Josi Ramos Horta told Lusa on Monday that CNRM would seek the position of observer in the SI as he arrived in Rome to attend the organization's two-day congress starting Tuesday. The CNRM is an umbrella group that joins together different East Timorese political factions like Frente Revolucionaria de Timor-Leste Independente (FRETILIN) and Unico Democratica Timorense (UDT) that have opposed the Indonesia occupation. Ramos Horta who was awarded recently the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize has been lobbying internationally for East Timors right of self-determination as a special envoy of the CNRM. Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975 and annexed it one year later but the United Nations still regards Portugal as the territorys administering power. The London-based Socialist International was founded in 1951 as an association of socialist parties that believes in parliamentary democracy and opposes communism. Lusa/Fim