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. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special representative in Timor-Leste Sukehiro Hasegawa called on political leaders to ensure that their followers and supporters restrain themselves from any behaviour that might result in violence amid tensions attributed to differences between eastern and western regions.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=19046&Cr=Timor&Cr1=Leste
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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=19032&Cr=timor&Cr1=leste
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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=19046&Cr=Timor&Cr1=Leste
Timor-Leste: Annan appeals for calm after new violence threatens displaced people
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=19032&Cr=timor&Cr1=leste
East Timor Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) Accuses Indonesia, Australia and U.S. of Atrocities + UPDATES
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2417&blz=1
Australian government outlines pro-market agenda for its Pacific sphere of influence
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jun2006/paci-j28.shtml