Timor

Security forces in Timor-Leste [File Photo]

Timor-Leste: UN helping to investigate deadly police shooting

30 December 2009
The United Nations today confirmed its participation in the criminal investigation of a deadly shooting allegedly committed by the police in the capital of Timor-Leste, and has called on the people of the nation to respect the law.
UNMIT empowers local police force in, Dili, East Timor [File Photo]

Timor-Leste takes over further security responsibilities from UN

18 December 2009
The United Nations handed over further policing responsibilities to Timor-Leste today as part of the gradual transfer of the security functions it assumed in 2006 after dozens of people were killed and 155,000 others – 15 per cent of the population – were driven from their homes in an eruption of violence in the newly independent country.
Ceremony marking the resumption of primary responsibilities for police operations in Timor-Leste by the PNTL

Timor-Leste police resume control of country's largest district from UN

5 December 2009
The United Nations handed over formal control today of policing operations in the country's largest district of Viqueque to the police of Timor-Leste, part of an ongoing strategy to lessen the UN's direct control over the country's nascent security operations.
Ameerah Haq

Veteran UN humanitarian official to become head of mission in Timor-Leste

2 December 2009
Ameerah Haq of Bangladesh, a veteran United Nations official with wide experience in crisis areas ranging from Afghanistan to Sudan, is to become the top UN representative in Timor-Leste as the small South-East Asian country seeks to consolidate its halting path to stability after gaining independence from Indonesia seven years ago.