---------------------------------------------------------- FREE for JOIN Indonesia Daily News Online via EMAIL: go to: http://www.indo-news.com/subscribe.html - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - Dengan mengClick banner sponsor anda menyumbang Rp. 1000,- untuk HomePage IndoNews. ---------------------------------------------------------- New York, February 6, 1999. OPEN LETTER TO UNSG KOFI ANNAN, C/O JAMSHEED MARKER Dear Mr. Secretary General, I appreciated very much your good offices on East Timor Tripartite talks which has been executed to the best of his ability in diplomatic skill and experiences by your Personal Representative Ambassador Jamsheed Marker. As a "reformed" newspaperman after being suppressed for forty years by the previous regimes, I am feeling free as never before due to the generous attitude of President Habibie and his Information Minister. I feel free to contribute my humble ideas to you based on my experiences as UN correspondent for 26 years so that the Tripartite talks would end up successfully as a UN Treaty of a peaceful resolution towards the independence of East Timor and wouldn't end up in a deadlock as a result of the disagreement on: referend- um, the disarmament of the armed irregulars on both sides, the opening of UN Office, and the deployment of the peacekeeping forces which you couldn't afford to finance. Everybody wants to be happy there would be a way for Indonesia to exit peacefully and gracefully without spending anymore money and energy, and last but not least to put an end to international condemnations, concurrently the transition to East Timor independence could be achieved almost immediately without inter- national bandwagon resented so much by Indonesia, without needless bloodshed anymore: I would suggest that all leaders of East Timor from both sides and Indonesia and Portugal be invited to accept the formation of an interim coalition regime to pre- pare the referendum after the official withdrawal of Indonesian troops and the disarmament of the irregulars. Mr. Joao Carrascalao suggested to me that the Indonesian forces should be util- ized as part of the UN Peacekeeping forces together with the forces from Austra- lia, Japan and other countries who could afford to finance themselves. Only the UN Troops could guarantee the open, free, fair and square plebiscite and safety of the civilians from possible clashes and violence and it can be done without UN appropriations, without Indonesia's unwanted involvement anymore. Thank you for your help and cooperation. Sincerely yours, H.S. Hidayat Supangkat UN correspondent Room 343 Phone (212) 963-7140 Mailing address: 53-11, 90 Street, Flushing, NY 11373 Phone & Fax (718) 699-7138 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 7 Feb 1999 jam 15:48:29 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
