DoD News Briefing
September 14, 2000
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen
(Media availability en route to Manila, Philippines. Also
participating: Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) Kenneth
H. Bacon.)
Secretary Cohen: I'll just be brief on this. This is roughly my tenth
visit to Asian countries in the past three and a half years, and when
I first took office I made it clear that I was going to work hard to
solidify the relationships that we have throughout the Pacific region.
This is a continuation of that policy.
...
We will be travelling to Indonesia, and that's going to be an important
visit as well to remind the president and, especially, the military
that they need to take strong action to curb the militias in West Timor,
that the situation that has been unfolding in recent days and months is
not acceptable, and that the international community is looking with a
very critical eye on whether or not President Wahid is going to take the
kind of action necessary to have accountability on the part of the TNI
[Armed Forces of Indonesia] for abuses in East Timor but also to intensify
the effort to curb the violence being inflicted on UN workers in East
Timor.
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