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DATE=8/29/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=U-N-EAST TIMOR (L ONLY)
NUMBER=2-265955
BYLINE=BRECK ARDERY
DATELINE=UNITED NATIONS
CONTENT=
INTRO:  A top United Nations official said today 
(Tuesday) that the security situation in East Timor 
has deteriorated recently due to increased activity by 
militia groups. VOA Correspondent Breck Ardery reports 
from the United Nations.  
TEXT:  U-N official Hedi Annabi told the U-N Security 
Council that there has been a marked increase in the 
activities of anti-independence militia groups in the 
past month. Two U-N peacekeepers have been killed 
recently as a result of militia attacks and, in West 
Timor -- part of Indonesia -- militia activity 
continues.  Mr. Annabi, the Assistant U-N Secretary-
General for Peacekeeping, noted that militia attacks 
caused the office of the U-N High Commissioner for 
Refugees, or U-N-H-C-R, to suspend its operations in 
the refugee camps of West Timor.
Mr. Annabi told the Security Council that a previously 
announced plan to reduce the size of the U-N 
peacekeeping force in East Timor has now been delayed.
            ///Annabi act///
      It is essential to maintain the current force 
      level to counter the threat posed by militia 
      activity.
            ///end act///
There are now about eight-thousand U-N peacekeepers 
and 12-hundred civilian police in East Timor.
Mr. Annabi spoke on the eve of the first anniversary 
of the independence vote in East Timor.
Several Council speakers, including U-S representative 
Mark Minton, said the government of Indonesia must do 
more to control the militia groups operating from West 
Timor.
            ///Minton act///
      The militia and those who support them must be 
      stopped, disarmed and disbanded immediately. The 
      international community and the U-N-H-C-R must 
      see concrete action by the government of 
      Indonesia to address the troubling security 
      problems with the militias before U-N-H-C-R 
      resumes its important functions in West Timor.
            ///end act///
But the report on East Timor was not entirely gloomy. 
The United Nations says considerable economic  
progress is being made with both the number of new 
businesses and new jobs rising rapidly.(Signed)
NEB/UN/BA/LSF/PT
29-Aug-2000 15:47 PM EDT (29-Aug-2000 1947 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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