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DATE=8/3/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=EAST TIMOR / UNITED NATIONS (L-O)
NUMBER=2-265119
BYLINE=LARRY FREUND
DATELINE=NEW YORK
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  The U-N Security Council has called for 
Indonesia to disarm and disband the pro-Jakarta 
militias operating in East Timor.  As Correspondent 
Larry Freund reports from New York, the Security 
Council statement follows the death last week in East 
Timor of a U-N peacekeeper and the killing of two 
militia members by U-N peacekeepers Wednesday.
TEXT:  A formal Security Council statement urges 
Indonesia to cooperate more closely in the field with 
the U-N mission in East Timor to end cross-border 
incursions from West Timor, to disarm and disband the 
militias, and to bring to justice militia members 
guilty of crimes.
The statement was issued a day after Australian 
peacekeepers in East Timor shot and killed two members 
of the militia about 10-kilometers from the border 
with West Timor.  A peacekeeper from New Zealand was 
killed in the border area last week. 
The Security Council statement condemns what it calls 
- the murder - of the soldier and expresses its 
sympathy to New Zealand and to the soldier's family.
Also in its statement, the Council notes its profound 
concern over the large number of East Timor refugees 
in camps in West Timor, a part of Indonesia.  It also 
expresses concern over the intimidation of U-N staff 
by militia opposed to East Timor's independence.
This month's Security Council president, Agam Hasmy of 
Malaysia, read the statement.
            /// HASMY ACT ///
      The Council calls on the government of Indonesia 
      to take effective steps to restore law and 
      order, to establish conditions of security for 
      refugees and international humanitarian 
      personnel, to allow free access for such 
      personnel to the camps, to separate the former 
      military personnel, police and civil servants 
      from the refugees, and to arrest those militia 
      extremists who are attempting to sabotage the 
      resettlement process.
            /// END ACT ///
The Security Council acknowledges Indonesia's attitude 
of cooperation, but regrets that serious problems 
persist.
In a related development, a peacekeeper from the 
Bangladeshi battalion in East Timor was killed 
(Thursday) by a blast from what the United Nations 
describes as - unexploded ordnance.
            /// REST OPT ///
U-N spokesman Manoel de Alemeida e Silva:
            /// ALEMEIDA E SILVA ACT ///
      This incident occurred while 15 Bangladeshi 
      soldiers were in a clean-up operation at one of 
      Dili's - East Timor capital - beaches to insure 
      the area was free of unexploded ordnance.  The 
      beach, called Crystal Ray Beach, had been sealed 
      off to the public on July 1st when an unexploded 
      ordnance went off and wounded three Portuguese 
      peacekeeping soldiers.
            /// END ACT ///
Another Bangladeshi soldier was wounded in the 
incident.   (SIGNED) 
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Source: Voice of America
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