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	Timor's PM Under Siege
		Alkatiri is also fending off criticism that he's running a government of exiles, people who've returned, but didn't stay to fight during the struggle.
		MARI ALKATIRI: One of the biggest corporations of some other countries in this region is with China, even for other countries from out of this region, United States and European Union, a market like China, which is more than 1 billion people, are looking for this market.
		MARI ALKATIRI: This is my obligation, I have to make my contribution for the liberation of the people, from poverty and from illiteracy, there are all kinds of things I have to do first.
	www.etan.org /et2003/september/21-30/17t-pm.htm (2114 words)

	Prime Minister and Cabinet, Timor-Leste Goverment - Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri
		Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri was born on 26 November 1949, in Dili, Timor-Leste.
		Alkatiri had an unwavering dedication to his country men and women, backed by a solemn belief that justice would be done.
		Alkatiri was awarded the 'Lifting up the world with a Oneness' - Heart Award in the margins of the 58th session of the UN General Assembly in New York in October 2003.
	www.primeministerandcabinet.gov.tp /biography.htm (1586 words)

	Asia Times: Exile returns to run East Timor
		As East Timorese chief minister, Alkatiri will be a Muslim at the head of a predominantly Catholic country (Islamic leaders at the Dili mosque confirmed that he is a practising member of their congregation).
		Mari's father was a highly-respected leader of the minority Arab community, who died a few years ago at the age of 100.
		Alkatiri's reputation as a hard man has been underlined in his role as chief Timorese negotiator in talks over oil riches in the southern Timor Sea, to be exploited jointly between Australia and East Timor.
	www.atimes.com /oceania/CI21Ah02.html (1334 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » East Timor's Catholic church rallies thousands in anti-government protest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Alkatiri who stayed inside his office during the demonstration, issued a statement saying he was willing to talk but was unhappy that the church had organised the protest.
		Alkatiri responded, accusing the church of "behaving like a political party", and saying that his government had the legitimacy to agree on the commission and make the education ruling.
		Alkatiri was the apparent target of an outbreak of violence in East Timor in December 2002, when riots saw 10 buildings torched or damaged in Dili, including the prime minister's home and houses owned by two of his brothers.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6BLDBL?OpenDocument (578 words)

	Disastrous riot in Dili
		Mari Alkatiri's house and the mosque are quite distant from the parliament.
		This group made racist attacks on Mari Alkatiri, declaring that East Timor should not be led by a 'fl head', and that the 'muslims were expelled in 1999'.
		Mari Alkatiri is widely regarded as incorruptible and seen as an obstacle to the ambitions of unscrupulous forces.
	www.search.org.au /news/dili_riot.html (645 words)

	Official Web Gateway to the Government of Timor-Leste: Prime Minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He is also committed to ensuring the development of all important sectors relevant to this objective as set out in the National Development Plan with the hope of a prosperous and safe future for Timor-Leste.
		Before entering politics, he was a chartered surveyor, and lived in exile during Indonesian occupation.The 54-year-old former chartered surveyor spent the years of Indonesia's occupation of East Timor living in political exile, only returning to the territory in 1999 ahead of the vote for independence.
		Mr Alkatiri went on to become one of the founder members of Fretilin, the party which was instrumental in achieving East Timor's independence from Indonesian rule.
	www.gov.east-timor.org /AboutTimorleste/pm.htm (689 words)

	Timor Sea Office - press - April 2004
		MARI ALKATIRI: In the beginning it was various starting points in the negotiations.
		MARI ALKATIRI: I think the situation is only between the Prime Minister, Mari Alkatiri and the Government of Australia, not between the two people.
		MARI ALKATIRI: You have a bank account, you pay for your key to the school with cheques, or to a supermarket and you use cheques to pay something.
	www.timorseaoffice.gov.tp /april04press4.htm (2294 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - East Timor needs international aid to overcome poverty
		Mari Alkatiri also told that the country's future depends heavily on its gaining ownership of vast oil and gas fields in the Timor Sea known as Greater Sunrise -- an area also claimed by Australia.
		Alkatiri insisted that East Timor was making strides, saying the danger posed by returning militiamen had dwindled in the face of the country's newly established police force and army.
		Alkatiri also said production of rice had jumped 20 % this year and investors from across Asia had expressed interest in the country's fisheries, tourism, small business and agriculture sectors.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/nts34609.htm (706 words)

	Lateline - 12/04/2004: Timor threatens oil deal pullout
		Mari Alkatiri says his government will not ratify an agreement signed last year, worth billions of dollars to Australia.
		MARI ALKATIRI, EAST TIMORESE PRIME MINISTER: I always considered the Howard Government as a good partners, but suddenly I realised that when billions of dollars are involved they became really bad partners.
		Mari Alkatiri signed that agreement as well, but now says his parliament won't ratify it.
	www.abc.net.au /lateline/content/2004/s1085870.htm (360 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Profile: Mari Alkatiri
		The descendant of Yemeni settlers, his brother is the leader of Dili's Islamic community - a minority in the predominantly Catholic country - and Mari Alkatiri himself is a practising Muslim.
		While Mr Alkatiri has remained loyal to the party he helped set up, Mr Gusmao has since split with Fretilin and complained that it conducted a whispering campaign against him in the run-up to the presidential election.
		Mr Alkatiri said at the time of the territory's presidential poll that he would not be voting for the man he will now help run the half-island's new government.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/1989267.stm (498 words)

	Asia Times
		Alkatiri told the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) that "a lot of pressure was done from the Australian government, which was not helpful for the whole process".
		Meantime a leaked transcript of a meeting between Downer and Alkatiri in Dili in December, published on Friday by the Australian alternative news website crikey.com.au, says there was heated debate regarding the maritime boundary issue.
		At one stage, it said that Downer, irritated by Alkatiri's consistent reference to renegotiating maritime boundaries, said: "To call us a big bully is a grotesque simplification of Australia.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/EC11Ae01.html (978 words)

	Timor Sea Office - press - April 2004
		Earlier Monday in Dili, Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri opened sea border demarcation negotiations with Canberra, charging that "illegal explorations" by Australia were depriving the Timorese of some euros 830,000 daily in lost oil- and natural gas-revenues.
		Mr Alkatiri was speaking as negotiations resumed in the East Timorese capital, Dili, aimed at settling the dispute over the maritime border between Australia and East Timor, and the ownership of billions of dollars in offshore oil and gas revenues.
		Mari Alkatiri, East Timor's prime minister, accused Australia yesterday of stealing a million dollars a day in petroleum royalties from his impoverished nation, as the two countries resumed discussions over disputed maritime boundaries.
	www.timorseaoffice.gov.tp /april04press5.htm (1949 words)

	Australia bullies "independent" East Timor over oil and gas
		Alkatiri claimed that during the independence day lunch, Downer assured him that Australia was ready to negotiate new boundaries.
		Alkatiri hinted at refusing to have the treaty ratified in East Timor’s national assembly, setting the scene for an acrimonious dispute.
		Alkatiri described the move as an “unfriendly” act, “tying the hands” of his government.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/may2002/timo-m30.shtml (1737 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Visiting East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri however stressed that in spite of the popularity of Bahasa Indonesia among his own people, his government would still insist on using Portuguese as the medium of teaching at schools in newly independent East Timor.
		Alkatiri, who spent his years in exile in Mozambique before returning to his country in 1999, admitted that it was easier to learn Bahasa Indonesia than Portuguese, and that there were some resistance among East Timorese against learning Portuguese.
		Alkatiri said the government's decision to use Portuguese as the national language was grounded on historical as well as strategic reasons.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art2426.txt (365 words)

	Radio National - Late Night Live - About
		Mari Alkatiri is the first Prime Minister of an Independent East Timor, a country that for 24 years was in the political wilderness, under Indonesian sovereign control.
		Alkatiri is a Muslim in a predominately Catholic country, a veteran of the diplomatic fight for liberation, and a man with his hands on the levers, as this tiny country navigates the difficult task of self-rule.
		In the first of a series of discussions with Asia Pacific leaders, Mari Alkatiri talks about the realities of running a new, independent country, one with an economy based on future oil and gas revenues, and answers corruption allegations made against him in a U.S. court last week.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/lnl/s1061500.htm (119 words)

	Crikey Website - Downer's spin and the East Timor talks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Alkatiri told the Portuguese news agency Lusa: "There is no accord and, if there is one, in the terms announced it would be totally against my orientations.
		Alkatiri insisted that Dili's stance on bilateral negotiations remained unaltered: "Let us negotiate at the table and not under the pressure of the media," he told Lusa.
		According to sources in East Timor, Alkatiri might only consider putting the boundary negotiation on hold for a short time in return for a minimum share of at least 50% of the lucrative Sunrise gas field with an estimated reserve of 2.05 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
	www.crikey.com.au /articles/2005/05/09-1204-7954.html (2198 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		Alkatiri's trip comes on the heels of the furor over his reported statement expressing his intention of asking for an international tribunal to try Indonesian Military (TNI) officers implicated in the 1999 mayhem in East Timor.
		Reportedly, Alkatiri suggested the trial be held in a neutral country, citing the "theatrical legal process" in Indonesia, which has acquitted 13 military officers of all charges.
		Megawati and Alkatiri are slated to witness the signing on Wednesday of agreements on cross-border arrangements and the establishment of traditional markets in border areas.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20030610.C03 (425 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - East Timor believes treaty is unfairly biased in favour of Australia
		Dr Alkatiri said that the Timor Gap treaty between his country and Australia was unfairly biased in favour of the far more powerful partner, Australia.
		Dr Alkatiri said that East Timor signed the agreement last March on the clear understanding that Australia recognised its claims and sought not to prejudice its rights in the Timor Sea.
		Dr Alkatiri said that while Australia was delaying negotiations it had issued new licences in disputed areas near the Sunrise field and it was continuing to derive revenue from other disputed parts of the Timor Sea.Dr Alkatiri said the Timor Gap treaty...
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/nts41600.htm (523 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		While food shortages are not uncommon for the East Timorese especially during drought periods, reports this year have raised concerns that the government of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri is neglecting remote villages in the island.
		What irks Alkatiri is that the daily's report comes at a time when a number of voices have been raised to draw attention to his poor governance.
		Alkatiri's harassment of 'STL' has also been brought to the attention of the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), which in a letter to the prime minister said: ''The boycott and threats against privately-owned publications are methods that are unworthy of a democratic government.''
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/print.asp?idnews=27790 (974 words)

	E Timor confident on Sea rights - Breaking News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Alkatiri expressed hopes border talks set for Canberra on September 20 would be constructive and help work towards a fair and equitable sharing of the rich oil and gas reserves.
		Alkatiri also "warmly" welcomed Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer's willingness after talks between the two earlier this month to resolve the boundary dispute expeditiously by looking at creative solutions.
		Speaking after a three-day public consultation on laws and model contracts for petroleum exploitation, Alkatiri also said the government was optimistic it would be able to issue a new set of laws and regulations on the development of petroleum resources by the end of the year.
	www.smh.com.au - !http: //www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/29/1093717830976.html (333 words)

	Dili, October 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		SRSG Sergio Vieira de Mello and Chief Minister Marí Alkatiri today stressed the need for the United Nations and donor countries to continue to support East Timor after its independence, which is expected to be proclaimed on 20 May 2002.
		Both [Chief Minister] Marí [Alkatiri] and myself addressed the Council, and many observed that this was the first time that a democratically elected Timorese appeared before what is, afterall, the supreme organ of the United Nations in peace and security, the Security Council.
		Marí Alkatiri: It is the UN that is responsible for the upcoming presidential election.
	www.un.org /peace/etimor/DB/db161101.htm (3134 words)

	Mari Alkatiri: War-weary East Timor knows no boundaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As the world watched events unfold in the Middle East, we heard talk of the territorial integrity of the nation of Iraq.
		As members of the Security Council prepare to commit themselves to the territorial integrity of postwar Iraq, Australians may wish to remember that there is unfinished business in Timor-Leste - another poor, war-weary people who, through no fault of their own, have lost control of their resources.
		Mari Alkatiri is the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste.
	www.etan.org /et2003/april/07/16mari.htm (541 words)

	CNN.com - Oil the fuel for East Timor - May 17, 2002
		East Timor chief minister Mari Alkatiri has said that East Timor could ride out the next two to three years because of the aid funds, but beyond that its economy remained "very fragile".
		Poverty reduction is the new government's key economic and social goal as it battles with the legacy of destruction caused by the retreating militia in 1999 and the impending departure of 8000 big-spending U.N.-related staff.
		Alkatiri has said eradicating poverty would be the "main target for the next few years," with fisheries and tourism key drawcards.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/asia/05/17/timor.oil.biz (876 words)

	AM - Last of Australian peacekeepers leaves East Timor
		So it's hardly surprising East Timor Prime Minister, Dr Mari Alkatiri, wants the country's people to continue to have the type of security the Australian soldiers provided even though they're on their way home.
		MARI ALKATIRI: We have up to 3,000 police officers, we have our own armed forces — up to 1,500 — and that's the way, we have the people, people who are very well organised.
		MARI ALKATIRI: I do believe that Australian soldiers here in East Timor have done a very good job, not only as military, but they are always helping people in many fields, building roads and bridges and that has been a multi sectoral activity they have made here.
	www.abc.net.au /am/content/2005/s1391525.htm (410 words)

	East Timor's newly elected president seen as heading for showdown with prime minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri told Xanana Gusmao he would not join a government of national unity -- a coalition of six parliamentary parties -- which Gusmao has touted as the best for governing East Timor.
		Born in 1949, Alkatiri is a descendent of wealthy Arab traders from Yemen who settled in East Timor more than 100 years ago.
		In 1974, Alkatiri and Gusmao were part of a group of young activists that established Fretilin, a Portuguese acronym for the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/04/17/international1503EDT0723.DTL (506 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, East Timor: Local Media Monitoring (English)
		SBS Dateline, Sept.09.26 - East Timor's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri is today travelling to China, an old ally from his years in exile.
		Timor became independent into 2002 and it's this man, Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, who wields the power, not the internationally famous Xanana GusmÃ£o or JosÃ© Ramos-Horta.
		For a person like Mari, if we start shooting each other in Dili, even if he's in hiding a bullet will get him, because he's not a son of this country.
	www.mfac.gov.tp /localnews/mm030926e.html (2618 words)

	USAID Transition Initiatives: East Timor Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Fretilin Secretary-General Mari Alkatiri leads the government as Chief Minister and Minister of Economy and Development.
		It appears that at least some are encouraged by Gusmão's talk of reconciliation, and reference by Chief Minister Mari Alkatiri to the potential for amnesty.
		Alkatiri has stated that Fretilin will continue supporting reconciliation and amnesty for Timorese refugees in West Timor, but also said that the reconciliation and amnesty process must be in tandem with justice and the law.
	www.usaid.gov /hum_response/oti/country/timor/rpt0901.html (2079 words)

	Norwegian Petroleum Directorate - Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The 54-year-old former chartered surveyor spent the years of Indonesia's occupation of East Timor living in political exile, engaged in academic teaching in Mozambique, only returning to the territory in 1999 ahead of the vote for independence.
		He established his political roots from an early age, entering political life in January 1970, with the establishment of the Movement for the Liberation of East Timor when the territory was still under Portuguese rule.
		When East Timor finally voted to become independent Alkatiri entered the interim administration as economics minister, forging his reputation as a tough operator as chief negotiator over the rich petroleum resources in the sea between Australia and Timor.
	www.npd.no /NR/exeres/A779026D-ADBA-4CFA-B35D-2431E21498AE.htm?NRMODE=Unpublished (677 words)

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