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CIA - The World Factbook -- East Timor elections: (next to be held August 2006); direct elections for national parliament were never held; elected delegates to the national convention named themselves legislators instead of having elections; hence the exceptional numbers for this term of the national parliament. Timor comes from the Malay word for "East"; the island of Timor is part of the Malay Archipelago and is the largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands East Timor declared itself independent from Portugal on 28 November 1975 and was invaded and occupied by Indonesian forces nine days later. www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/tt.html

GeographyIQ - World Atlas - Asia - East Timor - Economy East Timor has made significant progress in a number of areas since independence. As the poorest nation in Asia, East Timor must overcome formidable challenges. It has become a full-fledged member of the international community, joining the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). www.geographyiq.com /countries/tt/East_Timor_economy_summary.htm   (384 words)

Administrative divisions of East Timor On the right and the left wall of the East Timor national parliament are hanging traditional weavings, each with the name of one of the districts. This border line, by the way, was settled between Portugal and the Netherlands very early in the 20th cent., if I recall correctely by swapping the vassaldom of several native kingdoms along the border area, previously the territorial claims were a mess of enclaves and exclaves. Díli would remain as a provincial capital only, being the national capital city placed in a town on the hills, in a location more central, geographically. www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/tl-.html   (384 words)

CIA - The World Factbook -- East Timor 28 November 1975 (date of proclamation of independence from Portugal); note - 20 May 2002 is the official date of international recognition of East Timor's independence from Indonesia On 20 May 2002, East Timor was internationally recognized as an independent state. Supreme Court of Justice - constitution calls for one judge to be appointed by National Parliament and rest appointed by Superior Council for Judiciary; note - until Supreme Court is established, Court of Appeals is highest court www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/tt.html   (384 words)

Aileu District (East Timor) # fahnenversand.de - Fahnen Flaggen Fahne Flagge Nationalflaggen Nationalflagge Shop Flaggenshop Versand kaufen bestellen On the right and the left wall of the East Timor national parliament are hanging traditional weavings, each with the name of one of the districts. Díli is the only one in Timor I know about. Each district has such a weaving on the left and the right, but there are not exactly the same, just similar. www.fahnenversand.de /fotw/flags/tl-ail.html   (384 words)

flag of Aileu District (East Timor) flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de On the right and the left wall of the East Timor national parliament are hanging traditional weavings, each with the name of one of the districts. Díli is the only one in Timor I know about. Each district has such a weaving on the left and the right, but there are not exactly the same, just similar. www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/tl-ail.html   (384 words)

ipedia.com: Canberra Article Canberra has many national monuments and institutions such as Government House, Parliament House, the High Court of Australia, the Australian War Memorial, the National Gallery of Australia, Telstra Tower, the Royal Australian Mint and the National Museum of Australia. On June 7, 2004, Chief Minister Jon Stanhope and Dili (East Timor) District Administrator Ruben De Carvalho formalised the "City of Canberra and District of Dili Friendship Agreement", signed at a ceremony in Dili, attended by East Timorese President Xanana Gusmão and Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri. The National Press Club is on National Circuit, in the South Canberra suburb of Barton, and its regularly broadcasts its weekly lunches, in which a guest gives a half-hour speech and then goes through a half-hour question session afterwards. www.ipedia.com /canberra.html   (384 words)

La'o Hamutuk Bulletin Vol. 4, No. 2 May 2003 UN Missions and Security The Mission is headed by a Special Representative of the UN Secretary General (SRSG), Indian diplomat Kamalesh Sharma, and a Deputy Representative, Sukehiro Hasegawa from Japan, who also heads UNDP in East Timor. On 4 December 2002, a demonstration initiated by students protesting in front of the National Parliament against the attitude of the police during the arrest of one of their classmates the day before was manipulated and directed to attack specific targets symbolic of the Prime Minister or of the unequal wealth of foreigners. "to provide interim law enforcement and public security and to assist in the development of a new law enforcement agency in East Timor, the East Timor Police Service." www.etan.org /lh/bulletins/bulletinv4n2.html   (384 words)

Indonesia Unlike the rest of Indonesia, which had been a Dutch colony, East Timor was governed by the Portuguese for 400 years, and while 90% of Indonesians are Muslim, the East Timorese are primarily Catholic. Unlike East Timor, there is little international support for an independent Irian Jaya. On Oct. 20, 1999, in a surprising upset, the Indonesian parliament elected Abdurrahman Wahid as the new president of Indonesia, defeating Megawati Sukarnoputri, the popular leader of the Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle. www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107634.html   (384 words)

The World Factbook 2004 -- East Timor elections: (next to be held August 2006); direct elections for national parliament were never held; elected delegates to the national convention named themselves legislators instead of having elections; hence the exceptional numbers for this term of the national parliament. Supreme Court of Justice, one judge appointed by the National Parliament and the rest appointed by the Superior Council for the Judiciary elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; election last held 14 April 2002 (next to be held NA April 2007); after the first legislative elections, the leader of the majority party was appointed prime minister by the president, suggesting a precedent for the future www.brainyatlas.com /geos/tt.html   (384 words)

Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news and business from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam At a hearing of the Joint Committee on Treaties of the Australian parliament on Monday, Canberra submitted a "national interest analysis" of the treaty between Australia and New Zealand stating that "the boundary described in the treaty is a common maritime boundary dividing both the EEZ and continental shelf of the two countries. Under the United National Convention on the Law of the Sea, of which Australia and New Zealand are signatories, both countries are entitled to claim a continental shelf and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) extending 200 nautical miles. As talks between Australia and East Timor were underway early this month in Canberra, Australian businessman Ian Melrose renewed a prime-time television advertising campaign bluntly criticizing the Australian government's negotiating position over the boundary. www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/GC17Ae01.html   (1131 words)

CIA - The World Factbook -- East Timor On 20 September 1999 the Australian-led peacekeeping troops of the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) deployed to the country and brought the violence to an end. In late 1999, about 70% of the economic infrastructure of East Timor was laid waste by Indonesian troops and anti-independence militias, and 300,000 people fled westward. Timor comes from the Malay word for "East"; the island of Timor is part of the Malay Archipelago and is the largest and easternmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/tt.html   (1243 words)

East Timor Grapples With Languages After months of sometimes angry debate, the former Portuguese colony decided to make Portuguese one of its national languages - to be used in Parliament, in the official media and in schools - when it gains independence Monday after 24 years of often brutal Indonesian rule. Timor`s children are having their first contacts with Portuguese (estimated to be spoken by between 10 and 15 percent of Timorese), under a program which has brought teachers from the ex- colonial power to work with locally recruited staff. On a remote mountain road in East Timor, a child sitting on a tree trunk manages to say "good-bye" or "good afternoon" in Portuguese, a language that is now being taught all over the territory, but with very slow progress. www.etan.org /et2002b/may/12-18/14etgrap.htm   (1204 words)

E. Timor to be divided into 3 provinces, 1 special region The Eastern East Timor province comprises the districts of Manatuto, Los Palos, Baucau and Viqueque. Central East Timor consists of the districts of Dili, Aileu, Liquica and Same, while the province of Western East Timor covers the Ainaro, Covalima, Ermera and Bobonaro districts. While the date of the first general election in independent East Timor has not been officially set, it is widely expected to be Aug. 30. www.etan.org /et2001a/february/11-17/12ettobe.htm   (1204 words)

Indonesia: History Fighting in East Timor between government security forces and anti-independence militias on one side and separatist guerrillas on the other increased in mid-1999 as the vote approached. In the Oct., 1999, presidential elections, Abdurrahman Wahid, of the National Awakening party, became the country's first democratically elected president after Megawati failed to build the coalition needed for her to win; she was chosen by parliament as vice president. In early 1962, Sukarno dispatched paratroopers to Netherlands New Guinea—territory claimed by Indonesia but firmly held by the Dutch—forcing the Dutch to agree to transfer that area to the United Nations with the understanding that it would pass under Indonesian administration in May, 1963, pending a referendum that was to be held by 1970. www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0858813.html   (1204 words)

BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Asean reticent over East Timor East Timor's economy was seriously damaged by the violent Indonesian withdrawal in 1999 and by centuries of neglect as a Portuguese colony. East Timor's new government was sworn in on Monday, and immediately pledged to tackle the enormous task of rebuilding the country's ravaged economy. Asean's Secretary General, Rodolfo Severino, told the BBC that East Timor would be able to argue its case at a regional forum in July - where the new nation has been invited as a guest. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1999418.stm   (1204 words)

Commission for Reception Our objective is to provide information about the Commission and its work to interested observers and stakeholders, including the East Timorese community in and outside East Timor, governments, donors, media, academics, and the human rights community internationally. The Parliament of Timor-Leste is in the process of extending the mandate of the CAVR for six months. Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor www.easttimor-reconciliation.org   (263 words)

Commission for Reception Our objective is to provide information about the Commission and its work to interested observers and stakeholders, including the East Timorese community in and outside East Timor, governments, donors, media, academics, and the human rights community internationally. The Parliament of Timor-Leste is in the process of extending the mandate of the CAVR for six months. Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor www.easttimor-reconciliation.org   (263 words)

The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today Second, UNTAET wasted much time in its dealing with the future of the National Liberation Armed Forces of East Timor (Falintil), another problem it acknowledged. Moreover, when UNTAET was compelled to act due to the threat of mutiny among Falintil's ranks, the integration of its former members into the new East Timorese Defense Forces (FDTL) was left to personal loyalties, instead of clear and transparent criteria. Fifth, UNTAET left East Timor with a Constitution drafted according to Fretilin's wishes and with a parliament controlled entirely by the Fretilin (Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor). www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20021212.E03   (759 words)

ipedia.com: Canberra Article On June 7, 2004, Chief Minister Jon Stanhope and Dili (East Timor) District Administrator Ruben De Carvalho formalised the "City of Canberra and District of Dili Friendship Agreement", signed at a ceremony in Dili, attended by East Timorese President Xanana Gusmão and Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri. Many are represented in the "press gallery", the group of media people that follows the national parliament. The Australian Defence Force Academy (or ADFA) and the Royal Military College (or RMC) operate near the surburb of Campbell, in Canberra's inner northeast. www.ipedia.com /canberra.html   (3648 words)

Scoop: Timor: Catholic Church Pleads For Intervention The Catholic Church in New Zealand is calling for the international community to intervene in the current situation in East Timor, which is fast deteriorating into genocide. Catholic Aid & Development Agency, CARITAS, is calling on the UN Security Council which is meeting today, to vote for sending an armed UN peacekeeping force into East Timor and assisting the Indonesian military, who are now joining the paramilitary in the open slaughter of innocent Timorese, to leave the territory. Scoop News: Labour Holds 50 Seats National Loses One Down To 48 The Chief Electoral Officer has released the final election results that confirm Labour is the party with the most votes and takes 50 MPs into the new Parliament. www.scoop.co.nz /stories/GE9909/S00030.htm   (3648 words)

Canberra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Canberra has many national monuments and institutions such as Government House (the official residence of the Governor-General), Parliament House, the High Court of Australia, the Australian War Memorial, the National Gallery of Australia, Telstra Tower, the Royal Australian Mint, the National Library of Australia, and the National Museum of Australia. On June 7, 2004, Chief Minister Jon Stanhope and Dili ( East Timor) District Administrator Ruben De Carvalho formalised the "City of Canberra and District of Dili Friendship Agreement", signed at a ceremony in Dili, attended by East Timorese President Xanana Gusmão and Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri. Canberra is the 8th most populous city in the country; it is smaller than any of the state capitals except Hobart. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Capital+of+Australia   (3648 words)

Canberra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Canberra has many national monuments and institutions such as Government House (the official residence of the Governor-General), Parliament House, the High Court of Australia, the Australian War Memorial, the National Gallery of Australia, Telstra Tower, the Royal Australian Mint, the National Library of Australia, and the National Museum of Australia. On June 7, 2004, Chief Minister Jon Stanhope and Dili ( East Timor) District Administrator Ruben De Carvalho formalised the "City of Canberra and District of Dili Friendship Agreement", signed at a ceremony in Dili, attended by East Timorese President Xanana Gusmão and Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri. Canberra is the 8th most populous city in the country; it is smaller than any of the state capitals except Hobart. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canberra%2C_Australia   (3648 words)

Extend EU Arms Embargo Against Indonesia The embargo on arms sales and military co-operation with Indonesia, installed by the European Union on September 16th of 1999, is a sign that the Union wants to support a peaceful settlement for the problems concerning Indonesia and East Timor. This embargo is a sign of strong support for the democratisation process in Indonesia and East Timor. Therefore I urge the Dutch Parliament and Government to: take all necessary steps to make sure the military embargo of the European Union will be extended. www.zmag.org /Bulletins/pindae.htm   (3648 words)

Canberra - free-definition On June 7, 2004, Chief Minister Jon Stanhope and Dili ( East Timor) District Administrator Ruben De Carvalho formalised the "City of Canberra and District of Dili Friendship Agreement", signed at a ceremony in Dili, attended by East Timorese President Xanana Gusmão and Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri. Canberra is approximately 3 hours by road from Sydney on the Hume Highway and Federal Highway, seven hours by road from Melbourne on the Hume Highway and Barton Highway, and two hours on the Monaro Highway to Jindabyne and the snow ski fields of the Snowy Mountains and the (Mount) Kosciuszko National Park. In addition, there is an infrastructural axis stretching from the Federal Parliament House on Capital Hill to the seat of territorial government on City Hill, and a second one that stretches from Parliament House to Russell Offices and Duntroon. www.free-definition.com /Canberra.html   (3648 words)

East Timor: Opposition warns of Fretilin power grab - 9 February 2002 Leaders of Opposition parties in Dili, capital of East Timor, have warned that Fretilin, the left-wing party which won a majority of votes in Constitutional Assembly elections six months ago, intends to hold on to power for five years, before holding elections for the National Parliament. The warning was made by representatives of several political parties, called the Group for the Defence of Democracy, Peace and Stability in East Timor, which represents the main opposition parties in East Timor. The relationship between the elected president and the Fretilin-controlled parliament will be one of the first tests of the stability of this new government. www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2002feb9_timor.html   (3648 words)

East Timor: Opposition warns of Fretilin power grab - 9 February 2002 The call was rejected by Mari Alkatiri, the Fretilin Chief Minister, who confirmed that Fretilin wanted the period between the election of the Constitutional Assembly, whose primary function was to draft the constitution, and the next election for the National Parliament, to be five years. The warning was made by representatives of several political parties, called the Group for the Defence of Democracy, Peace and Stability in East Timor, which represents the main opposition parties in East Timor. In elections for the Constitutional Assembly last year, Fretilin won over 57 per cent of the vote, with three other parties, the Democratic Party, the Social Democratic Party and the Timorese Social Democratic Association winning about 8 per cent each. www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2002feb9_timor.html   (900 words)

AM Archive - Former Indonesian Information Minister denies involvement in Balibo Five murders COMPERE: In Indonesia, the country's former Information Minister Yunus Yosfia has appeared before a powerful parliamentary committee to defend himself against claims that he was involved in the murder of five Australian based newsmen in East Timor 25 years ago. But given the international concern about the case of the so-called Balibo five, the Indonesian parliament wanted to hear Yunus Yosfia's defence first-hand. The official explanation for the deaths of the Balibo five is contained in a report written by the former head of Australia's National Crime Authority Tom Sherman. www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s250721.htm   (494 words)

Politics of East Timor Legislative branch: unicameral National Parliament (number of seats can vary, minimum requirement of 52 and a maximum of 65 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms); note - for its first term of office, the National Parliament is comprised of 88 members on an exceptional basis election results: Kay Rala Xanana GUSMÃO elected president; percent of vote - Kay Rala Xanana GUSMÃO 82.7%, Francisco Xavier do Amaral 17.3% www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Politics_of_East_Timor.html   (363 words)

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