---------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- LUSA News, 03 Aug 99 12:01 Australia's Downer Increasingly Upbeat on Plebiscite Prospects Canberra, Aug. 3 (Lusa) - Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, recently returned from a visit to East Timor, said Tuesday he thought the Indonesian-occupied territory's status plebiscite would take place in a relatively fair manner and on Aug. 30, as now scheduled after two postponements. "I believe at this time that, without wanting to sound overly optimistic, things are somewhat more positive and I now feel reasonably confident that the vote will take place on Aug. 30," Downer told journalists in Canberra. "If such is the case," he added, "I think we can foresee that the question of East Timor will finally be resolved." Acknowledging that the plebiscite would take place in "a very difficult atmosphere," Downer said that Jakarta, under pressure for a "free and fair vote," was responding "better than two or three months ago." -Lusa- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 6 Aug 1999 jam 08:25:41 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
