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 | | Indeed, at the request of Portugal, Indonesia extended its active cooperation to theprocess as inter alia evidenced by the series of meetings held between high-levelrepresentatives of the two sides in New York, September 1974; Lisbon, October 1974; London, March 1975; Jakarta, August and September 1975; and Rome. |
 | | Thepurpose of these discussions, of which two meetings, one in New York and one in Rome, havebeen held, is to strengthen the efforts to reach a solution that is peaceful,comprehensive and internationally acceptable. |
 | | In fact, as late as in November 1975, three months after Portugal's abandonment of EastTimor, at a meeting between the Foreign Ministers of the two countries in Rome, Indonesiastill urged Portugal to return to East Timor in order to complete the decolonizationprocess in a just and orderly manner. |
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