Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:01 AEST Beazley wants recognition withdrawn The Opposition leader, Kim Beazley, is advocating an immediate withdrawal of Australia's de jure recognition of Indonesia's sovereignty over East Timor. Australia legally recognised Indonesia's control over East Timor in 1979, the only country in the world to do so. The move underpinned the Timor Gap Treaty. Labor has been resisting calls for the recognition to be withdrawn but Mr Beazley says it is now time. "The Indonesian Parliament has its timetable. All the rest of us have ours," he said. "That vote is good enough. A UN-supervised ballot scrutinised by international observers, preceeded by violence and intimidation the other way, not for the way the outcome finally went, that's a good enough ballot for anybody. "And that's a good enough ballot to finally say 'okay, de jure recognition ceases now'." © 1999 Australian Broadcasting Corporation ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
