Security Council holds "constructive" meeting with Indonesian Foreign Minister
13 October -- The Security Council has held a "frank and constructive" meeting with the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, Alwi Shihab, according to an official communiqué released today at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
During the meeting, which took place yesterday afternoon, the Council welcomed an invitation from the Indonesian Government to visit the country in November, following the Council's mission to East Timor.
The Council decided to dispatch a mission to the region last month in the wake of militia attacks that killed three UN humanitarian staff working in West Timor. Two days after the 6 September attacks, the Council adopted a resolution insisting that the Indonesian Government immediately disarm and disband the militia, restore law and order to the affected areas in West Timor, ensure safety and security in the refugee camps and for humanitarian workers, and prevent cross-border incursions into East Timor.
Meanwhile, the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor today reported that the remains of 61 people who had been killed by militia in Oecussi in September, 1999 had undergone forensic investigation. The bodies were exhumed from a mass grave discovered in December last year in Passabe, some two kilometres from the southern border with West Timor. Of the victims, 15 have been identified while 46 remain unidentified. The remains will be buried in a local cemetery.
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