DATE=9/20/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=INDONESIA - HUMAN RIGHTS (L-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-254081
BYLINE=JEANNE HALLACY
DATELINE=JAKARTA
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: The United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, Sadako Ogata met privately with Indonesian
President B-J Habibie today as the first United
Nations peacekeeping forces arrived in East Timor.
Mrs. Ogata said that the Indonesian government gave
security assurances for the safety of the nearly two
hundred thousand refugees who fled from East Timor to
West Timor. Jeanne Hallacy has more from Jakarta.
TEXT: Mrs. Ogata met President Habibie after visiting
the refugee camps with Indonesian government officials
in West Timor.
The High Commissioner said that the U-N-H-C-R would
expand their assistance programs in West Timor and
oversee the movement of refugees into transit camps
where they will be given a choice to return to East
Timor.
// OGATA ACT//
We should be moving many of them because some of the
camps right now are temporary and crowded and so on -
temporarily to transit centers and let them stay there
and choose. I think the fact that we should let them
choose is a very important thing and it's very much
where we agreed with the government.
//END ACT//
Speaking to reporters after her meeting with President
Habibie, Mrs. Ogata said that Indonesian authorities
will cooperate with the United Nations in allowing
assistance to reach civilians displaced in East and
West Timor as a result of the violence.
//OGATA ACT//
I would have to rely and trust them that they will do
everything to make the stay of the refugees (as) safe
- and for our own operations to be covered by their
own security considerations.
//END ACT//
Although the Indonesian government has stated that aid
for East Timor's internally displaced civilians will
be allowed to continue, the security situation on the
ground remains volatile in remote areas of the
troubled territory. (signed)
NEB/JH/GC/PLM
20-Sep-1999 03:55 AM EDT (20-Sep-1999 0755 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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