>From: Philip L Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: East Timor >Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:30:40 +1200 > >Yesterday I sent an email which had stuff that Fretilin leader Jose Ramos >Horta said in a major interview on a TV current affairs programme here on >Monday night (Sept 13). I didn't have my notes from the interview at the >time, so thought I'd repost it, with my notes. > >Horta had just met Clinton and he said that the meeting confirmed his view >of Clinton as "a very warm, caring and compassionate person". He stated >that Clinton is the Western leader who has most raised the question of East >Timor. He then praised Madeleine Albright. He then moved on to praise the >speech Clinton made last week and the positive role of US world leadership. > >He then said, "we have to do everything to support Habibie" whom , he said, >had made a "brave, courageous decision" in relation to East Timor. > >Horta then echoed UN Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson* and argued >for a UN_initiated War Crimes Tribunal on Indonesian Crimes in East Timor. > >Asked about rebuilding East Timor, he said Fretilin people had been busy >lining up a lot of overseas investors for reconstruction work and that >there was a meeting set up with the World Bank later this year. > >Philip Ferguson > >* Mary Robinson was president of Ireland in the late 80s/early 90s. She >has a long record of support for the partition of Ireland and British >imperialism, along with a liberal social conscience. > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
