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High-level international team overseeing elections

All Timorese share ‘responsibility’ for the success of 2007 elections: UN poll experts

31 October 2006
After arriving for their first official visit in Timor-Leste, a team of United Nations experts charged with verifying next year’s elections in the strife-torn nation, said today that all Timorese are responsible for the success of the polls, and stressed their importance in building stability after deadly violence erupted earlier this year.
UN police force intervenes to help stop fighting

Timor-Leste: airport reopens after UN helps curb gang violence

26 October 2006
Timor-Leste’s airport reopened today after the United Nations police force helped end fighting between gangs and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the small South-East Asian nation that was shaken earlier this year by violence attributed to differences between eastern and western regions.

Top UN official in Timor-Leste praises calm response to violence report

20 October 2006
Despite fears of violence after the release this week of a United Nations report into recent strife in Timor-Leste, the response so far has been “overwhelmingly positive” and calm in the tiny nation where deadly conflict attributed to differences between eastern and western regions erupted in April, the top UN official in the country said today.

Timor-Leste: restoring public security is absolute necessity, UN officials say

12 October 2006
With over 50,000 internally displaced people still living in makeshift camps in and around Timor-Leste’s capital, continued low level fighting in the streets and elections due next year, United Nations officials today said that restoring public security was an absolute necessity.

Timor-Leste: UN envoy applauds its leaders’ call to accept upcoming report on strife

5 October 2006
The United Nations envoy in Timor-Leste today warmly welcomed a statement by Timorese leaders calling on the population to accept the findings of an upcoming UN report into this year’s deadly violence in the tiny South-East Asian nation, which killed around 40 people and forced more than 150,000 others to flee their homes.

UN envoy in Timor-Leste stresses the need to resolve differences at the ballot box

2 October 2006
Stressing the need to restore stability and peace in Timor-Leste following the deadly violence that erupted earlier this year, the United Nations envoy in the tiny nation said today that all Timorese should resolve their differences at the ballot box and not through conflict.
Police in Timor Leste

Timor-Leste: first batch of police return to work under UN mentoring scheme

27 September 2006
The first group of Timor Leste police has resumed work under a United Nations mentoring scheme after being relieved of duty earlier this year in violence that shook the small South East Asian nation, which the world body shepherded to independence from Indonesia just four years ago.
Antero Lopes, UN Acting Police Commissioner in Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste: New acting UN Police Commissioner named

5 September 2006
As part of United Nations efforts to foster stability in Timor-Leste, Police Advisor Antero Lopes has been designated Acting Police Commissioner for the UN peacekeeping operation in the country, where he worked previously on law enforcement issues.

Timor-Leste: UN Police, international security forces move to apprehend prison escapees

30 August 2006
United Nations Police and international security forces in Timor-Leste today mounted a widespread search for the dozens of prisoners who have escaped from Becora Prison, just east of the capital, Dili.
Nana Effah-Apenteng

Security Council establishes expanded UN mission in Timor-Leste

25 August 2006
The Security Council today unanimously approved a resolution creating a new and expanded United Nations mission in Timor-Leste, citing ongoing threats to the stability of the South-East Asian country.