---------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- ANTARA, Aug 8 1999 East Timor: Civil Police And Mily Liaison Personnel Reinforcement Yet To Be Discussed Dili, aug 7 (ANTARA)-Foreign Minister Ali Alatas said the Australian government's plan or proposal to the United nations on a reinforcement of UNAMET civil police personnel and military liaison officers has not been discussed. "No discussion has been made on the matter, and let us see the development of the situation, and hear what the Indonesian military and police have to say about it," he told the media in Dili on saturday. Indonesia is always trying to think and do the best for the settlement of the East Timor issue, he pointed out. The Australian papers The Age and The Sidney Morning Herald recently reported that the United Nations has approved an Australian proposal to reinforce international police personnel and military liaison officers in the UN Mission in east Timor with 200 to 300 members. Details on the proposed reinforcement will be taken up further by United nations authorities and the Indonesian government in Jakarta soon. The United Nations' approval came following several weeks of secret discussion by United Nations officials, Australian and United States representatives. In the meantime on different occasions a number of public leaders who refused to reveal their identities have urged the Indonesian government through its diplomats abroad to frustratethe Australian wish. If the plan is realized, they said, it would mean a failure of the Indonesian diplomats to handle the East Timor question abroad. "Not all the wishes of other countries associated with the settlement of the East Timor issue must be granted, our government must be firm in rejecting them," they said. (U.DLI-01/INT-NG/23:40/ri2/23:40/TB03) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 12 Aug 1999 jam 09:56:51 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
