Rome – East Timorese activist Josi Ramos Horta has denied that the territorys resistance movement application to become an observer at the Socialist International (SI) would link East Timor self-determination supporters to political movements. Ramos Horta, a 1996 Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate, said on Tuesday that the application by Conselho Nacional da Resistjncia Maubere (CNRM) to become an observer at the SI would only "strengthen the resistance movement in the diplomatic field", stressing that CNRM did not "claim any ideology". He told Lusa on Monday that CNRM would apply for observer status at the SI. The London-based SI was founded in 1951 as an association of socialist parties that believes in parliamentary democracy and opposes communism. East Timor was invaded by Indonesia in 1975 and annexed one year later but the United Nations still regards Portugal as the territorys administering power. Lusa/Fim