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	East Timor President Vows to Stay On and Serve - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum
		East Timor President Xanana Gusmao appeared on Friday to withdraw a threat to resign over a dispute with the country's premier, promising thousands of supporters at a rally in the capital that he would always serve them.
		That prompted several prominent East Timor leaders to visit the president on Friday and urge him to stay in office, and by late afternoon some 5,000 supporters were demonstrating in front of Dili's main government building.
		East Timor was a Portuguese colony for hundreds of years before a revolution in Lisbon in 1975 gave the territory a brief taste of independence.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/etimor/2006/0622fox.htm (668 words)

	East Timor Factsheet
		East Timor is the eastern part of the island of Timor, which lies between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
		East Timor became a Portuguese colony in the 16th century, while much of the rest of the region was controlled by the Dutch, and known as the Dutch East Indies.
		In 1996 two East Timorese activists, Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta, received the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to bring about a peaceful resolution to East Timor's situation.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/easttimor1.html (659 words)

	ISN Security Watch - East Timor searching for a solution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		East Timor appears to be pulling back from the brink of civil war even though the fledgling country remains mired in violence and unrest.
		East Timor President Xanana Gusmao called for an end to the violence pitting groups from the countryâs east and west based along ethnic divides and territorialism.
		In the meantime, East Timor also appears politically fractured, as the prime minister and the president are known to have differences and are meeting for the first time face-to-face since the outbreak of violence.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?id=16023 (1307 words)

	Online NewsHour: Update \| East Timor President Urges Peace \| June 1, 2006 \| PBS
		East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao appealed to the country's military and police forces Thursday to cease feuding and work together to unite the country a week after fighting flared between soldiers and rebels.
		Much of the antagonism on the streets is between East Timorese from the east -- perceived to be pro-independence -- and those from the west, believed to be sympathetic to Indonesia.
		About 2,500 Australian-led peacekeeping troops are in East Timor to assist in the disarming of the police and soldiers.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/asia/jan-june06/easttimor_06-01.html (470 words)

	East Timor in no hurry for gas deal - Business Asia by Bloomberg - International Herald Tribune
		BANGKOK The president of East Timor, Xanana Gusmao, said Thursday that his country should not rush to settle a dispute with Australia over offshore oil and gas fields before the three-year-old nation can handle the royalties, which could exceed $14 billion over two decades.
		Australia and East Timor are "on the threshold" of an accord to split royalties from Woodside Petroleum's stalled Sunrise gas project, the Australian foreign minister, Alexander Downer, said May 13.
		East Timor, which gained its independence from Indonesia in May 2002 after a 24-year armed struggle, wants the boundary at a midpoint between the two countries, in the gas-rich Timor Sea.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/06/16/bloomberg/sxtimor.php (615 words)

	East Timor's President Takes Control of National Security
		The East Timorese president has taken over direct control of the armed forces and declared a state of crisis in an attempt to end violence by rampaging rival gangs that have killed at least 27 people in the capital Dili.
		East Timor's president, Xanana Gusmao, announced late Tuesday he would assume sole responsibility for the defense and security of his nation.
		The fighting has exposed old rivalries between those from the east of the country, who are seen as having fought for East Timor's independence and those from the west, who are seen as having supported Indonesia's brutal 24-year rule.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-05-30-voa41.cfm (490 words)

	Statement by the President on East Timor
		President Clinton urged Indonesia to resolve the crisis in East Timor, or ask for help from the international community, citing dangers both to Indonesia itself, and to the region.
		President, Republicans in Congress are saying that if you veto their tax cut package, they're not likely to send you another one.
		Interpretation number one is, they believe they can stop this madness in East Timor and they want to do it, and they don't want to have to admit that they have to have help to do it.
	www.usembassyjakarta.org /news/etimor.html (4036 words)

	East Timor's president threatens to resign - timor, resign - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune
		DILI, East Timor East Timor's president threatened to resign Thursday after the ruling party refused to let the prime minister step down, deepening a political crisis in the tiny nation following weeks of bloody street battles.
		One of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri's close allies, meanwhile, was escorted by foreign troops to court for allegedly providing arms to a hit squad tasked with silencing the opposition.
		Many East Timorese say Alkatiri's decision to fire 600 disgruntled soldiers in March was to blame for subsequent clashes and gang warfare that have left at least 30 people dead and sent nearly 150,000 people fleeing from their homes.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/06/22/news/web.0622timor.php (261 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news - Back to the drawing board in East Timor
		East Timor, the world's youngest country and one of the smallest, was widely considered a success story, a model for future and current United Nations nation-building missions.
		When East Timor was drafting its constitution, Alkatiri was able to leverage the support of the Fretilin Party to establish a parliamentary system.
		The UN's role in East Timor can be expected to take on greater importance in the near future, but many have blamed the current breakdown on the previous UN mission.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/HF30Ae02.html (1774 words)

	East Timor President Urges Patience
		DILI, East Timor - Marking the first year of independence, the president of East Timor (news - web sites) on Friday urged his impoverished countrymen to be patient, saying the government must focus on the economy and calling the past 12 months a "good lesson" for the future.
		East Timor became independent on May 20, 2002, when the United Nations, which had administered the territory since an overwhelming vote for independence from Indonesia 2 1/2 years earlier, handed over control.
		East Timor officials also have blamed pro-Indonesia militias, disaffected former rebels who couldn't get jobs in the new police force and students outraged over the arrest of a peer for alleged gang activity.
	www.etan.org /et2003/may/17/16etpres.htm (690 words)

	CNN.com - Horta: Timor suffering 'accurate' - Jan 22, 2006
		Jose Ramos-Horta told CNN Monday the report was "very accurate" but he urged the East Timorese people to have the courage not to dwell on the past and move on.
		The independently funded report, presented to the United Nations on Friday, claims Indonesia's military used starvation as a weapon against East Timor's civilian population, with the deaths of between 84,000 and 183,000 people attributable to this policy between 1975 and 1999.
		The violence in East Timor was not one sided, Ramos-Horta said, as a civil war had broken out in 1975 in the region.
	www.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/asiapcf/01/22/easttimor.horta/index.html (864 words)

	Government - East Timor - Oceania: right vote, president symbol, 18 older, head state, court law
		The president of East Timor is directly elected to serve a five-year term and may serve no more than two consecutive terms.
		Under the constitution, the president is the symbol of East Timorese independence and the guarantor of the smooth functioning of the republic’s democratic institutions.
		The Supreme Court is headed by a president, who is appointed by the president of the republic to a four-year term.
	www.countriesquest.com /oceania/east_timor/government.htm (364 words)

	USATODAY.com - Mobs burn homes, residents scuffle over food in East Timor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		President Xanana Gusmao's declaration that he was taking sole control of security was seen as an attempt to break a political deadlock that has paralyzed the government and may have helped fueled deadly violence.
		Loyalist troops now are confined to their barracks, renegade former soldiers are in the hills near Dili, the police force is in disarray, most government offices are closed and many lawmakers have fled the capital, along with a fifth of the population.
		East Timor has sought reconciliation with Indonesia; prosecution of suspects in the massacres had not appeared imminent.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-05-30-east-timor_x.htm (803 words)

	Online NewsHour Update: East Timor Becomes Independent Nation -- May 20, 2002
		East Timor's prime minister, Mari Alkatiri, and cabinet ministers were also sworn in.
		A recent U.N. report called East Timor "one of the least developed nations in the region," with a life expectancy of 57 years and half the population remaining illiterate.
		The deal, which gives East Timor a 90 percent share of the profits, is expected to be worth $7 billion over the next 20 years.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/timor_05-20-02.html (435 words)

	CNN.com - Emergency powers for Timor troops - May 30, 2006
		Jose Luis Guterres, East Timor ambassador to the United States and United Nations, said the government's goal was to end the violence.
		East Timor's latest troubles began in March, when the government fired 600 soldiers who had gone on strike against alleged discrimination in the military.
		East Timor broke away from Indonesia amid a wave of violent protests that followed the 1999 referendum on independence.
	edition.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/asiapcf/05/30/timor.unrest.gusmao (793 words)

	RTE News - East Timor President appeals for peace
		East Timor President, Xanana Gusmao, has made an appeal for peace after weeks of violence, amid continued rebel demands for him to oust unpopular prime minister, Mari Alkatiri.
		The situation remains tense but calm in the capital, Dili, where at least 20 people were killed last week in unrest that caused the government to call in more than 2,200 foreign troops.
		The Australian-led international peacekeeping force is now on the ground in East Timor with the aim of disarming all police and soldiers.
	www.rte.ie /news/2006/0601/easttimor.html (297 words)

	News: East Timor, Indonesian president to meet Timor Leste's Xanana about report
		Jakarta_(dpa) _ Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to meet with his counterpart, Timor Leste's president Xanana Gusmao, on Friday in Denpasar, Bali to discuss a report about alleged abuses committed by Indonesia during its occupation.
		East Timor President Xanana Gusmao, the former guerrilla leader jailed by Jakarta for six years, handed the report to UN Secretary General Kofi Anan on January 20, but has consistently pushed for reconcilation with Indonesia rather than prosecution.
		Gusmao has been party to the suppression of the report, in accordance with his longstanding view that there is nothing to be gained by a nation of 1 million publicly embarrassing a neighbour with a population of 240 million.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6M48KW?OpenDocument (360 words)

	East Timor: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
		East Timor is located in the eastern part of Timor, an island in the Indonesian archipelago that lies between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
		East Timor's resistance movement was violently suppressed by Indonesian military forces, and more than 200,000 Timorese were reported to have died from famine, disease, and fighting since the annexation.
		East Timor's offshore gas and oil reserves promised the only real hope for lifting it out of poverty, but a dispute with Australia over the rights to the oil reserves in the East Timor Sea thwarted those efforts.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0902237.html (1094 words)

	East Timor President Threatens to Resign, East Timor President Threatens to Resign After Prime Minister Refuses to Step ...
		East Timor president threatens to resign after prime minister refuses to step down
		President Xanana Gusmao, a former guerrilla chief revered for his role in helping East Timor achieve independence from Indonesia, has demanded that Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri resign or be fired.
		Many East Timorese say Alkatiri's decision to fire 600 disgruntled soldiers in March was to blame for street battles and gang warfare that left at least 30 people dead and sent nearly 150,000 people fleeing from their homes.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/06/22/ap/world/mainD8IDI13O2.shtml (659 words)

	FT.com / World / Asia-Pacific - East Timor president assumes more powers
		East Timor’s PM expected to resign - Jun-21
		East Timor?s president, Xanana Gusmao, said on Tuesday night he had assumed control of what was left of his country?s security forces as he and other leaders sought to end a political stalemate aggravating the present security crisis.
		But only minor militia figures have ever been brought to trial in East Timor, with Indonesia refusing to hand over indictees and carrying out its own trials, which are widely considered by experts to have been a sham.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/0f1656fc-efed-11da-b80e-0000779e2340.html (599 words)

	East Timor's president announces emergency measures, hoping to curb unrest
		The statement by President Xanana Gusmao also represented an attempt to break a political deadlock that has paralyzed his government and possibly triggered some of the unrest.
		East Timor has sought reconciliation with Indonesia, and efforts to prosecute suspects in the 1999 killings had not appeared imminent.
		The fired soldiers, dubbed "westerners" because of their allegedly questionable loyalty to an independent East Timor, rioted and fled to the hills.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/world/060530/w053050.html (781 words)

	East Timor's Xanana Appeal for Suu Kyi's Release
		I'm not talking as the president of East Timor to pressure the (Burmese) junta, but I'm talking as a former political prisoner asking the junta to reflect on this,'' Gusmao said in his address to the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand.
		In late August 1999, East Timor voted in a U.N.-sponsored referendum to break away from Indonesia, setting off a wave of violence by pro-Jakarta militants and Indonesian security forces, which killed an untold number and caused hundreds of thousands to flee to neighbouring West Timor.
		The East Timor president said he understood what Suu Kyi was going through in detention and urged her to be strong.
	www.mizzima.com /archives/news-in-2004/news-in-dec/02-December04-04.htm (940 words)

	YAM November/December 2003 - East Timor
		That would require an international tribunal, and while the UN has raised this possibility, East Timor's leaders, running a country that is poor, internationally unimportant, and dependent on good relations with its former tormentor, can hardly spare the diplomatic capital needed to ensure that it materializes.
		Kiernan tells the president that he is researching the East Timorese resistance -- "Genocide scholarship hasn't paid much attention to attempts to oppose genocidal regimes," he explains.
		In East Timor, the evidence-collecting role is being led by a UN-sponsored committee: the Commission on Reception, Truth, and Reconciliation.
	www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/03_11/easttimor.html (6186 words)

	The Epoch Times \| East Timor's President Meets With Indonesia's Wiranto
		President Gusmao was on the Indonesian island of Bali Saturday on what his aides described as a private visit, but it seems clear the real purpose was to discuss current matters with his old enemy from the East Timorese independence struggle, General Wiranto.
		President Gusmao said nothing after the meeting, and his aides declined to comment on Sunday.
		President Gusmao has taken a pragmatic approach to the violence that occurred in Timor, believing that good relations with his country's giant neighbor are more important in the long run than putting Indonesian suspects on trial.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/4-5-30/21710.html (343 words)

	East Timor's president urges calm; rebels say they're willing to talk peace
		DILI, East Timor (AP) - East Timor President Xanana Gusmao urged warring factions Monday to end the violence surging through the country's capital, while ex-soldiers whose rebellion triggered the mayhem offered peace talks.
		Gusmao, the most respected figure in East Timor, addressed a crowd of demonstrators outside government offices in Dili where Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri and his cabinet held emergency meetings to find a way to end the crisis.
		East Timor voted for independence in a UN-sponsored referendum in 1999 to end 24 often-brutal years of Indonesian rule, triggering mayhem by militias linked to the Indonesian army.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/world/060529/w052936.html (469 words)

	Radio Australia - News - East Timor's president faces protesters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao has accepted a letter from a crowd of 1,500 protesters from the western mountains demanding that he sack the government of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri.
		However, President Gusmao did not directly address the issue of Prime Minister Alkatiri when he spoke to the crowd from atop a car outside his office.
		The chief of an Australian aid organisation working in East Timor says the violence seems to be confined to Dili.
	www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1656950.htm (522 words)

	Britain's foreign secretary meets with president of East Timor
		East Timor won its independence in May 2002 after four centuries of Portuguese colonial rule and 24 years of often brutal Indonesian occupation.
		Straw said Britain had never recognized Indonesian sovereignty over East Timor and had provided ``moral and material support' to U.N. missions operating in the country.
		According to the British Foreign Office, the British government has played a leading role in rebuilding East Timor, for which Britain has pledged about 12 million pounds (about 19.2 million US dollars) from 2002 to 2005.
	www.etan.org /et2003/october/14-20/15brit.htm (449 words)

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