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DATE=10/26/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=TIMOR / AID (L-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-255489
BYLINE=LISA SCHLEIN
DATELINE=GENEVA
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  The United Nations World Food Program, W-
F-P, is appealing for more than 21-million U-S 
dollars to help feed over 400-thousand people in 
East Timor.  Lisa Schlein has this report from 
Geneva
TEXT:  The World Food Program says money from the 
appeal will allow it to continue its emergency 
food distribution program. 
W-F-P's Christiane Berthiaume says the money will 
enable the agency to start a new food-for-work 
project that will feed people and help to 
reconstruct and rehabilitate the country.
            /// BERTHIAUME ACT ///
      People would be paid in food to rebuild 
      houses, to repair, to pick up all the 
      garbage and everything that's out in the 
      street.
            /// END ACT ///
Ms. Berthiaume says W-F-P is very concerned about 
the lack of agricultural activity in East Timor.  
She says normally at this time of year, people 
are planting crops for next year's harvest.  But, 
she says tens of thousands of people are still 
displaced.  They haven't returned to their 
villages.  They're not working the land.
            ///2ND BERTHIAUME ACT///
      We fear that the crop next year won't be 
      good enough to feed everybody.  And, almost 
      all the inhabitants of this island do live 
      from their agricultural products.  So, we 
      might need after these six months to 
      prolong this operation. 
            ///END ACT///
Ms. Berthiaume says W-F-P and the Food and 
Agriculture Organization will send a joint 
mission to East Timor at the end of November.  
The agencies will evaluate the harvest and 
forecast food needs for the coming year.
Meanwhile the U-N Refugee Agency says the 
organized repatriation of East Timorese from West 
Timor and other parts of Indonesia is going well.  
An estimated 20-thousand refugees have returned 
home in just over three weeks.  The agency says a 
new sea route is being opened up, and this will 
increase the numbers of people returning.  
However, the agency says militias are preventing 
refugees in West Timor who want to return home on 
their own from crossing the border into East 
Timor. (Signed)
NEB/LS/GE/LTD/KL
26-Oct-1999 11:33 AM EDT (26-Oct-1999 1533 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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