Timor

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.

Timor-Leste, helped to independence by UN, sends police to help UN in Kosovo

9 December 2005
Underscoring the remarkable progress it has made since the United Nations helped it to independence in 2002, Timor-Leste, the world’s youngest country, is sending 10 police officers to serve in the UN Police unit in Kosovo, which the world body has administered since 1999.