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ReliefWeb Source: UN Transitional Administration in East Timor
(UNTAET)
Date: 18 Sept 2000
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UNTAET Daily Briefing 18 Sep 2000
Dili, 18 September 2000
SRSG MEETS INDONESIAN ATHORITIES, U.S. DEFENCE SECRETARY
SRSG Sergio Vieira de Mello today received assurances from Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono, the Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political,
Social and Security Affairs that a concrete plan to disarm the
militias and improve the security situation in West Timor is being
drawn up.
After the meeting in Jakarta, described as more positive than the
talks between East Timor and Indonesia in Denpasar on 14 September,
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono traveled to New York to discuss the issue
with United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the Security
Council.
Sergio Vieira de Mello and U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen
exchanged views on the situation in West Timor in a meeting yesterday.
Cohen visited Jakarta to discuss the situation in West Timor with
Indonesian President Abdurrachman Wahid and other Government members.
Before leaving Jakarta for Dili today, SRSG met with Indonesian
Attorney-General Marzuki Darusman to follow-up the on going Indonesian
investigation into serious crimes committed in East Timor last year.
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