Timor

Timor-Leste midwives get UN motorcycles in bid to slash maternal mortality

28 April 2003
The United Nations has given Timor-Leste’s midwives 80 motorcycles in a bid to extend their reach to remote rural areas and cut the highest level of maternal deaths in the Asia and the Pacific region.
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Slower pullout of UN troops will help security in Timor-Leste, Security Council told

28 April 2003
The head of the United Nations mission in Timor-Leste told the Security Council today that the new timetable for the gradual withdrawal of UN peacekeepers was critically important in addressing the criminally and politically motivated threats to security in that country.

Annan asks for 1-year extension of UN mission in Timor-Leste

25 April 2003
Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appealed to the Security Council to extend for another year the mandate of the United Nations mission in Timor-Leste, where he says the security environment continues to deteriorate.

Timor-Leste indicts 5 Indonesian soldiers for crimes against humanity - UN

10 April 2003
Timor-Leste filed an indictment against five Indonesian soldiers today for crimes against humanity, bringing to more than 20 the number of Indonesian personnel charged this week, a United Nations spokesman said.
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Timor-Leste: Security Council adjusts police force, slows pull-out of UN troops

4 April 2003
Despite the welcome progress Timor-Leste has achieved since its independence last year, persistent security and stability concerns prompted the Security Council today to adjust the composition and strength of the police component of the United Nations mission in the country and to slow the downsizing of the UN peacekeeping force.

Timor-Leste: UN transfers security duties in Lautem district to local police

3 April 2003
The United Nations today handed over police duties to local authorities in the Lautem district of Timor-Leste, the first such locality to have full responsibility for overall security and law enforcement.