| Subject: XN: Horta, Wirajuda to meet on
truth commish
Indonesia, East Timor to establish commission of friendship
February 4, 2005 5:04am
JAKARTA, Feb 4, 2005 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Indonesian Foreign Minister
Hassan Wirajuda will host a meeting with his East Timor counterpart Ramos
Horta to have talks on the planned establishment of the commission for
truth and friendship, a foreign spokesman said Friday.
The commission has been agreed by both countries as a settlement of
dispute over alleged human rights abuses by Indonesian officers in East
Timor in 1999, Foreign Affairs Ministry's spokesman Yuri Thamrin told a
weekly press conference here.
He said the meeting will be held on the resort island of Bali on Feb.
7-8.
The meeting is aimed at achieving an agreement on the terms of
references for the establishment of the commission, he said.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his East Timor counterpart
Xanana Gusmao have shared commitment to bilaterally settling the dispute
through the establishment of the commission when they met in Bali on Dec.
14, 2004.
Indonesia has been under international pressures over massacre in East
Timor before, during and after the former Indonesian province voted for
independence in late 1999.
A government-sponsored human rights tribunal in Jakarta has convicted
only two civilians and acquitted most of the accused officers of rights
abuses, which prompted the United Nations to propose the Commission of
Experts that will launch further investigation.
Both governments in Indonesia and East Timor apparently rejected the UN
proposal.
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