UN Eyes More East Timor Mission Cuts in Late2004
558523
The United Nations will consider more cutbacks in its peacekeeping mission in East Timor in October, a U.N. official said on Tuesday, prompting regional power Australia to warn against hasty action.
606556
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to extend the U.N. mission in East Timor for a year and beef up the international police force ahead of upcoming elections.
638382
Indonesia and East Timor announced this week they would establish a bilateral &quot;truth and friendship commission&quot; to heal wounds between the two countries left by the 1999 violence
436169
The United Nations spent $18 billion on peacekeeping missions around the globe in the past five years &#151; mainly in Africa &#151; but not enough on preventing conflicts from erupting in the first place.
470713
East Timor's parliament has approved a state budget of nearly $350 million for 2008 that aims to improve security and tackle poverty in Asia's youngest nation.
701897
UN commissioners heading a special inquiry into deadly violence that rocked East Timor this year have arrived for their first visit to check on progress so far, the UN said.
753729
UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations is set to field its largest peacekeeping enterprise in its 61-year history, with more than 100,000 troops and police to be deployed by year's end in missions around the world.
570435
Australia said it wants to withdraw its troops from East Timor as soon as possible but the timing depends on the United Nations' plans to set up a mission in the fledgling nation.
478058
Indonesia and East Timor  announced plans on Tuesday to create a joint commission in  hopes of putting behind them a 1999 rampage in which Indonesian  gangs killed about 1,000 East Timorese.
507604
1 December 2004 - The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo today expressed concern about renewed tensions between the DRC and its eastern neighbour over Rwanda&#39;s expressed intentions to attack DRC-based Rwandan
189904
THE United Nations has asked NATO to examine how it could support an African Union military mission to Sudan as the European Parliament prepares to toughen its stance on the crisis in Darfur.
251383
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd jetted into East Timor Friday to lend support to the fledgling nation's efforts to stabilise and rebuild after violence last year.
675946
In the wake of Mondayâs twinned attacks on the president and prime minister of East Timor, the United Nations and East Timorese police have begun a joint investigation.
640020
East Timor's prime minister urged the Security Council Monday to extend the U.N. peacekeeping mission in his volatile country for one year, saying the next months will be critical as the Pacific nation prepares for its first national elections.
217027
Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday recommended against reducing the U.N. mission in East Timor in its final six months, saying the new nation hasn't reached "the critical threshold of self-sufficiency."
705423
East Timor risks erupting in violence again if its government and the UN fail to quickly reform the country's security forces, which remain vulnerable to political abuse, a think-tank warned Friday.
184079
East Timor's newly installed Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta has offered a weapons amnesty to prevent a repeat of communal clashes which left 21 dead and displaced 150,000 two months ago.