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UN supports dialogue in Timor-Leste

24 May 2006
With quiet returning to Timor-Leste following recent violence, the UN Office in the country (UNOTIL) is supporting the Government’s proposed initiative to convene a meeting with representatives of the dissident groups in order to engage in a dialogue, a UN spokesman said today.

Following unrest, UN mission in Timor-Leste extended one month past expiration

12 May 2006
Following fatal mob violence late last month in Timor-Leste, the Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations office there (UNOTIL) one month past its 20 May expiration as the world organization considers how to further reinforce the stability of the nascent country.

President of Timor-Leste meets with UN rights chief

15 March 2006
Far from encouraging impunity with a policy of forgiveness for past crimes, Timor-Leste is trying to establish conditions for its people build their future, the young country’s President Xanana Gusmão, said today in Geneva after meeting with United Nations High Commissioner for Human rights Louis Arbour.

After repatriating 225,000 to Timor-Leste, UN agency ends work in West Timor

16 December 2005
After helping the voluntary repatriation of 225,000 people who fled to West Timor to escape the violence after the 1999 referendum on independence for East Timor, the United Nations refugee agency is scheduled to finish six-years of humanitarian operations in the Indonesian half of the island on December 31.
Sukehiro Hasegawa

Experienced Japanese diplomat to head UN political office in Timor-Leste

3 June 2005
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today named a veteran Japanese diplomat to head up the newly established UN political office in Timor-Leste.

New UN political mission for Timor-Leste approved

28 April 2005
With the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Timor-Leste set to wrap up its work in mid-May, the Security Council today mandated a special political mission to help ensure the nascent country continued its journey toward self-sufficiency and self-reliance.

Annan calls on donors to help Timorese build a better future

25 April 2005
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today urged the international community to "again do its part," calling on donors meeting in Timor-Leste to help the tiny Asian nation continue its post-independence march towards sustainable development.

World’s youngest country becomes newest applicant to join UN tourism agency

21 April 2005
Timor-Leste, the world’s youngest country, has become the newest applicant for membership of the United Nations tourism agency, a global forum that plays a decisive role in promoting the development of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.

UN pullout would leave Timor-Leste facing insurmountable challenges, Security Council told

28 February 2005
The withdrawal from Timor-Leste of United Nations military liaisons and police trainers as scheduled later this spring might leave the country facing insurmountable challenges in its path towards peace and stability, the top UN envoy to the nation told the Security Council today.
USG Guéhenno briefs the Council

Timor-Leste has made remarkable progress, but still needs help - UN official

20 February 2004
While Timor-Leste has progressed impressively since gaining independence, the fragility of its national security means that the United Nations should maintain a presence there for a year beyond the end of its mission’s mandate in May, a senior UN peacekeeping official said today.