With Wednesday passing as the final deadline for East Timorese to challenge the list of proposed candidates for the upcoming elections, the United Nations transitional administration today said that all political parties and independent candidates had been officially registered.
The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) today finalized a list of 16 East Timorese political parties eligible to field candidates for the territory's first democratically elected legislative body.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed concern today about the increasing lack of hospitality - and in some cases downright hostility - towards Afghan refugees, not only in the immediate region, but all across the world.
Eleven defendants went on trial in Dili today for allegedly committing crimes against humanity during the pre- and post-ballot violence in 1999, the first such case to be prosecuted in United Nations administered East Timor.
The United Nations will provide no special protection to two UN police officers currently in detention in Dili in connection with the alleged rape of an East Timorese woman, the head of the mission in the territory said today.
A breakthrough treaty between East Timor and Australia on resources in the Timor Sea was endorsed by senior officials in Dili today at a ceremony attended by United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette and other dignitaries.
An Arrangement between the East Timor Transitional Administration and the Australian Government was approved today, giving East Timor 90 per cent of the revenues from the oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea, the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) said on Tuesday.
Opium production has dropped significantly around the globe, thanks largely to the ban on opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, the world's leading producer, according to a new report released today by the Vienna-based United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP).
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today presented the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award to Thailand, praising the country for its "remarkable progress" in supporting persons with disabilities.
Approximately 93 per cent of the estimated population in East Timor have been registered in advance of upcoming elections, the United Nations mission in the territory announced today.
