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04:48:13, Friday, 03 Sep 2010

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Women selling vegetables at the local market in Suai, Covalima District. Photo by Martine Perret/UNMIT

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Images of the 35th anniversary of the formation of the The Armed Forces for the National Liberation of East Timor - Forças Armadas da Libertação Nacional de Timor-Leste - (FALINTIL) commemorated on 20 August in Dili, Timor-Leste. Established on 20 August 1975, FALINTIL was dissolved on 1 February 2001. In 2002 the official armed force of the newly independent Timor-Leste was named, Força de Defesa de Timor-Leste.

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Under-Secretary-General
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Timor-Leste
Ameerah Haq

On the Occasion of the Eleventh Anniversary of the Popular Consultation
30 August 2010

Dili, Timor-Leste

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