---------------------------------------------------------- FREE for JOIN Indonesia Daily News Online via EMAIL: go to: http://www.indo-news.com/subscribe.html - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 ++ Pemilu Online: http://www.indo-news.com/pemilu/ ++ ---------------------------------------------------------- Antara, June 19, 1999 Vote Counting Not To Be Done at Polling Stations Dili, E Timor, June 18 (ANTARA) - The counting of votes cast in the assessment of the East Timorese people's opinion on their political future next August 8 will not be conducted at polling stations but at one place in Dili to be determined by the UN, a UN spokesman said. "The vote counting will be done at one place only, not at each polling station as feared by many East Timorese," said David Wimhurst, spokesman of the UN Assessment Mission in East Timor (UNAMET), here Thursday. After the people had cast their ballots, UN officers would take all the ballot boxes by land and air transport to a designated place where the counting would be carried out, he said. The returns of the ballot would also be announced by the UN, he added. Ballots cast outside East Timor or in the territories of foreign countries such as in Sydney, Darwin, Lisbon, Maputo, Macau and New York, would also be counted at predetermined places but not in East Timor, he said. Wimhurst called on the East Timorese people not to worry too much about rumors that there would be trouble at the polling stations. The maintanance of security and order would be the responsibility of the Indonesian police who would no doubt do their best to prove themselves worthy of the trust the international community had placed in them, Wimhurst said. "The Indonesian police will surely want to preserve the good reputation and image of their country in the eyes of the whole world at the forthcoming ballot," he said. (U.DLI-03/DLI-01/INT-KT/15:25/INT-AJM-17:57/NN01/19:29/TB06) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 23 Jun 1999 jam 04:55:16 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
