---------------------------------------------------------- Visit Indonesia Daily News Online HomePage: http://www.indo-news.com/ Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Indonesian Observer 5th August 1999 Pro-RI group rejects extension JAKARTA (IO) =96 A pro-integration group yesterday slammed the United Nation= s=92=20 decision to extend the voter registration period for an August autonomy=20 ballot. The Forum for Unity, Democracy, and Justice (FPDK) said the decision of UN=20 Secretary General Kofi Annan to give longer time for the East Timorese livin= g=20 outside the troubled territory to register was not fair, because more East=20 Timorese people in East Timor have not registered. "We considerably deplore the priority given to the registration posts outsid= e=20 East Timor, including in foreign countries. The registration period in East=20 Timor should actually be extended longer than that of outside East Timor,=20 because more East Timorese people in East Timor have not registered than=20 those East Timorese people outside East Timor," FPDK spokesman Basilio Diaz=20 Araujo told Antara. Unlike, the FPDK, Secretary General of the National Council for Resistance i= n=20 East Timor (CNRT) Leandro Isaac hailed the voter registration extension. He was quoted as saying that he respected Annan=92s decision, but the extens= ion=20 was not useful for his group, because supporters of the pro independence=20 faction had registered. However, he urged the government of Indonesia to give an assurance of=20 security for members of Falintil, CNRT=92s armed wing, to be able to registe= r=20 during the extended registration period. Basilio Diaz Araujo did not accept the reason of the UN Secretary General.=20 The registration period outside East Timor is extended for four days because=20 it is below the target. He declined to elaborate about the registration for=20 East Timorese people in foreign countries. At present, he said, there are still thousands of refugees who have not=20 registered on the border between East Timor and East Nusa Tenggara(NTT), so=20 that the refugees can use the extended time. On Tuesday, he said the FPDK and the East Timorese People=92s Front (BRTT)=20 representing pro-autonomy groups, and the CNRT representing the anti-autonom= y=20 group held meetings to discuss the extension of the registration period. =20 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 5 Aug 1999 jam 08:09:18 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
