---------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- BBC Worldwide Monitoring Thursday, August 19, 1999 Source: Lusa news agency web site, Macao, in English 1448 gmt 18 Aug 99 EAST TIMOR: PRO-INDEPENDENCE AND PRO-JAKARTA SIDES TO MEET FOR TALKS IN BALI Pro- and anti-independence representatives are scheduled to meet Friday and Saturday 20th and 21st August on the Indonesian island of Bali to discuss the East Timor transition. The encounter will be the second of its kind. Four delegates from each side will take part, along with a UN team led by Ian Martin, head of the UN Assistance Mission in East Timor (Unamet), an official source told Lusa. Detained East Timor resistance leader Xanana Gusmao is expected to be among those present. Participants will discuss details of the Preparatory Commission for the East Timor Transition, which was negotiated on 11th August at a first Jakarta meeting also attended by Gusmao. The proposal was later approved at 12th-13th August tripartite talks in Jakarta between representatives of the UN, Indonesia and Portugal, the territory's former colonial power. The commission will count 10 supporters of autonomy (within Indonesia) , 10 supporters of independence and five UN representatives, and should be operational before the territory's 30th August self-determination ballot. The Bali venue for the upcoming talks was reportedly chosen after Indonesia ruled out Dili, the East Timor capital. The Jakarta authorities have stated that they do not want Gusmao present in East Timor before the ballot. If Xanana Gusmao attends the Bali meeting, it will be his first trip outside Jakarta since 1993, when he was transferred to Cipinang prision in the Indonesian capital... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 20 Aug 1999 jam 02:39:22 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
