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Subject: LUSA: UN team preps report on future UN structure, commitments
12-01-2004 11:48:00 GMT . Fonte LUSA. Notícia SIR-5744818 Temas: East
Timor: UN team preps report on future UN structure, commitments
Dili, Jan. 12 (Lusa) - A United Nations' technical team began
discussions Monday with East Timorese leaders on the shape of the UN's
engagement with Dili following the end of its UNMISET mission in May.
The eight-member team, led by Julian Harspon, is expected to remain in
East Timor through Jan. 20, holding talks with the country's senior
leaders and non-governmental organizations, to prepare a report and
recommendations for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Annan is expected to present a report on East Timor in February to the
Security Council, which should take a decision in March.
The council and international community appear divided on the character
and size of the future UN presence, following the May 31 end of the UN
Mission in Support of East Timor (UNMISET).
While a consensus appears to have emerged that the UN should extend its
presence in some form, likely through a predominantly civilian structure,
Dili has pressed for the continued deployment of a security presence of
some kind.
Senior Timorese officials have asked that the UN maintain a
rapid-deployment police force and, possibily, military observers through
2006.
UNMISET currently has a pruned-back peacekeeping force of 1,750
"blue helmets", including a Portuguese battalion.
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