Press Releases

  • SRSG Hasegawa: “People in districts need expanded communication networks ”
    07 Jul 2008 - 6 September 2006, DILI— The Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) for Timor Leste, Sukehiro Hasegawa today visited the eastern most district of Lautem where he solicited the views of local government officials and national police officers (PNTL) on the current...
  • UNMIT Announces Appointment of Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Timor-Lest
    07 Jul 2008 - 7 September 2006, DILI— Finn Reske-Nielsen has been appointed as Deputy Special- Representative for the Secretary General (DSRSG) for Governance Support, Development and Humanitarian Coordination for United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT). Mr. Reske-Nielsen...
  • Malaysian, Australian and Portuguese Police Contingents Officially Join UNMIT Police
    07 Jul 2008 - 14 September 2006, DILI— A ceremony for the official handing-over of executive policing authority from the International Police in Timor-Leste to the United Nations Police (UNPOL) took place yesterday in front of the Palácio do Governo in the capital city of Dili. Prime...
  • SRSG Hasegawa calls for National Campaign for Disarmament
    07 Jul 2008 - 18 September 2006, Dili – At a Security Task Force meeting held on Friday 15 September, Sukehiro Hasegawa, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Timor-Leste, discussed with Brigadier-General Mick Slater, UN Police Commissioner Antero Lopes and other police...
  • Cooperation between UNPOL and Timorese Community Aids in Second Arrest for IDP Camp Shooting
    07 Jul 2008 - 19 September 2006, DILI—UN Police (UNPOL) yesterday made a second arrest for an incident that occurred on 1 September at the Jardim Internally Displaced Persons' (IDP) camp near the sea port in the capital of Dili in which five people suffered gun shot injuries when a group of...
  • FIRST BATCH OF TIMOR-LESTE POLICE BACK ON DUTY IN DILI UNDER UN MENTORING SCHEME
    07 Jul 2008 - 27 September 2006, DILI — A first group of twenty-five members of the Policia Nacional de Timor Leste (PNTL) has this week resumed duty under a mentoring scheme being run by the United Nations Police (UNPol). Eighteen of the 25 have been assigned to general patrol duties, a...
  • International Judges sworn-in in the Court of Appeal
    07 Jul 2008 - 29 September 2006, Dili: On the 28th of September, at 2h30 pm, the President of the Superior Council of the Judiciary, Cláudio Ximenes, swore in international judges Ivo Nelson de Caires Batista Rosa (from Portugal) and Telma Angélica Figueiredo (from Brazil) to perform...
  • UNMIT – A NEW UN MISSION FOR TIMOR LESTE
    07 Jul 2008 - UNMIT is an entirely new mission for Timor Leste. It was established on August 25th this year by the UN Security Council, and its full mandate is spelled out in Security Council Resolution 1704. UNMIT's job is about stability, national reconciliation, and democratic governance...
  • UNMIT officials: Restoring public security in Timor-Leste is paramount
    07 Jul 2008 - 12 October 2006, Dili—With over 50,000 internally displaced people living in makeshift camps in and around the capital city, continued low level fighting in the streets, and elections due to take place in the coming year, UN officials in Timor-Leste at a joint press conference...
  • UN ENVOY URGES EARLY APPROVAL OF TIMOR LESTE ELECTION LEGISLATION
    07 Jul 2008 - Dili, October 12th (UNMIT) - The UN's Acting Special Representative, Finn Reske-Nielsen, this week urged Timor Leste's parliament to speed approval and promulgation of vital electoral legislation. In an address to the 88-member assembly on Wednesday Reske-Nielsen said both...

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