Timor

Timor-Leste: UN officials continue talks to end violence; funding shortfall threatens aid

30 June 2006
As United Nations envoys continued their efforts today to calm tensions and plan for a possible expanded UN police force in Timor-Leste, a funding shortfall is threatening food supplies for 155,000 people, 15 per cent of the total population, displaced by the violence that ripped through the small South-East Asian nation over the past two months.
Sukehiro Hasegawa

Timor-Leste: as demonstrators mass, UN envoys seek to calm tensions

29 June 2006
With thousands of demonstrators milling around in the Timor-Leste capital of Dili, United Nations envoys today stepped up their efforts to calm tensions and plan for a possible expanded UN police force in the small South-East Asian nation that the world body shepherded to independence from Indonesia just four years ago.

Timor-Leste: Annan appeals for calm after new violence threatens displaced people

28 June 2006
Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the people of Timor-Leste to show calm and unity after renewed violence erupted even as his special envoy conferred with key leaders over an increased United Nations presence in the small South-East Asian nation that the UN shepherded to independence from Indonesia just four years ago.
Ian Martin

Envoy begins talks on expanded UN mission in Timor-Leste following violence

27 June 2006
Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Envoy for Timor-Leste today conferred with a leading member of the governing party on the first full day of his mission to assess the need for an increased United Nations presence after violence tore through the small South-East Asian nation.

Timor-Leste: UN envoy arrives to assess need for beefed-up UN mission after violence

26 June 2006
Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Envoy for Timor-Leste arrived on the ground today to assess the need for a possible increased United Nations presence after violence tore through the small South-East Asian nation that the UN shepherded to independence from Indonesia just four years ago.
Sukehiro Hasegawa

Timor-Leste: UN envoy broadcasts unity appeal to nation in wake of violence

23 June 2006
The top United Nations envoy in Timor-Leste sought to avert further unrest there today, broadcasting an appeal to the people to unite after violence attributed to differences between eastern and western areas tore through the small South-East Asian nation that the UN shepherded to independence from Indonesia four years ago.
Some of the thousands displaced in Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste UN expands food aid to tens of thousand displaced by recent violence

22 June 2006
Tens of thousands of people displaced by the recent unrest in Timor-Leste are in urgent need of food aid from international donors, according to a United Nations assessment released today.

Security Council extends UN Office in Timor-Leste, will consider expanded role

20 June 2006
Expressing “deep concern over the volatile security situation in Timor-Leste and its serious humanitarian repercussions,” the United Nations Security Council today extended for two months the world body’s small office there and asked Secretary-General Kofi Annan to report before that mandate expires on an expanded future role.
Woman in her shelter at Metinaro camp

Timor-Leste: UN expands emergency relief for tens of thousands who fled violence

16 June 2006
The United Nations refugee agency has stepped up emergency relief operation in Timor-Leste, reaching out to tens of thousands of people who fled violence in Dili, the capital, for surrounding areas in the small South-East Asian nation that the UN shepherded to independence from Indonesia four years ago.
Sukehiro Hasegawa

Senior UN envoy helps probe into Timor-Leste violence

14 June 2006
Continuing his efforts to help restore calm to Timor-Leste, the top United Nations envoy there today conferred with UN-recruited prosecutors on the criminal investigation into the fatal shootings in April and May, which shook the small South-East Asian nation that the world body shepherded to independence from Indonesia four years ago.