---------------------------------------------------------- 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, July 1 1999 Ban: Ramos Horta Not Allowed To Visit E. Timor Jakarta, June 30 (ANTARA)- The Indonesian goverment has prohibited East Timorese proindependence leader Ramos Horta to visit East Timor. "Foreign Minister Ali Alatas thinks Ramos Horta had better be prevented from visiting East Timor for his own good because most people in East Timor will reject his presence," Information Minister Yunus Yosfiah said after a limited cabinet meeting on political and security affairs here Wednesday. Ramos Horta, now here for the church-organized DARE II reconciliatory meeting between East Timorese pro-integration and pro-independence groups, said upon arrival at Soekarno Hatta airport recently that Alatas had allowed him to visit East Timor on condition that he would not engage in any political activity in the province. "What Ramos Horta said is not true," Yosfiah said. "The Indonesian foreign minister only said he would consider the matter if that (Ramos Horta wishing to visit EastTimor) happened," Yosfiah said quoting ad-interim foreign minister Feisal Tanjung in his report to President BJ Habibie who presided over the cabinet meeting. In other words, Ramos Horta did not have automatic permission to go to East Timor but just a promise that the Indonesian government would consider a request for permission if he really wanted to make the visit, Yosfiah said. "But now the Foreign Minister thinks Horta should be prevented from going there," he added. Yosfiah said the Indonesian government's stance had been comunicated to Ambassador-at-large for East Timor Affairs Lopez da Cruz for further conveyance to Ramos Horta through the two bishops of East Timor who are also in Jakarta for the DARE II meeting. "Meanwhile, we have received confirmation from Bishop Belo that proindependence participants of the meeting who live abroad, including Ramos Horta, will not visit East Timor," the minister said. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 5 Jul 1999 jam 06:06:23 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
