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Subject: Daily Media Review Monday, 26 May
2005
[Poster's note: Long repeats of international articles already sent out to
the east-timor list have been removed.]
UNOTIL
Daily Press Review
Compiled by the Public Information Office from national and international
sources
Daily Media Review
Thursday, 26 May 2005
Legal practitioners fail evaluations
None of the Timorese prosecutors and public defenders who have been
undergoing training since January have passed their latest evaluations. The
results of the evaluations were announced by the Appeals Court President
Claudio Ximenes yesterday at the Judicial Training Centre in Caicoli, Dili.
According to Ximenes, none of the prosecutors or defense lawyers received
the score of 10 needed to pass the training. He said that as none of them
have passed and they will continue to attend training at the Centre for
another two years. Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Jose Ramos
Horta who attended the announcement of the evaluations said that the time
that had been lost in the past five years would not have occurred if UNTAET
had established a judicial training system in the very beginning.
(Timor Post, STL)
Lu-Olo - Undisciplined MP's should resign
President of the National Parliament Francisco Guterres (Lu-Olo) has asked
those Members of Parliament who do not attend Parliament sessions regularly
and who are unable to carry out their tasks as representatives of the
people, to resign. According to Parliament regulation, those MP?s who expect
that they will be absent from Parliament for any reason must submit their
justification beforehand. However, according to Lu-Olo, the reality is that
some MP?s attend Parliament sessions whenever they feel like it, without a
proper justification for their absences. (STL)
Democracy and stability threatened
The terror and intimidation toward the community carried out by Fretilin
members and sympathizers in the last few months is a threat to the
developing democracy and stability in the country, according to Riak Leman
an MP from the Social Democrat Party (PSD). Speaking to journalists at the
Parliament on Wednesday, Riak said that the terror and intimidation such as
occurred in Uatulari sub-district in Viqueque last week, only began after
the martial arts group KORK merged with Fretilin. Leman warned that if this
behaviour continues, confrontation may arise between the people themselves,
as has been the situation in the past. Leman said that for these reasons PSD
does not accept martial arts organizations as part of its party membership.
(STL)
Timor-Leste to participate in ILO conference
Secretary of State for Labour and Solidarity will request continued
assistance from the international community for the development of Timor-Leste?s
labour force at the upcoming International Labour Organisation Annual
Conference to be held in June in Geneva. Arsenio Paixao Bano, who will lead
Timor-Leste?s delegation, said that the Timor-Leste delegation will request
assistance for Timor-Leste from other member countries of the ILO
particularly in the area of professional training.
Meanwhile, speaking to journalists on Wednesday Bano said that unemployment
in Timor-Leste is close to 80%, of which 20% is in Dili and 60% in the rural
areas. However Bano said that much unemployment is of an informal nature, so
formal unemployment may be closer to between 200 000 and 300 000 people. He
said that he is hopeful that by 2012 the Government will be able to
significantly reduce the number of unemployed, and that the fact that
Timor-Leste has not borrowed money means that inflation is still low and
national income is increasing, which is helping to create employment. Bano
added that it is now important for the Timorese people to begin to lose
their mentality of dependency. (Timor Post)
Pertamina accused of illegal fuel smuggling
Commander of the TNI Wirasakti Regional Command in East Nusa Tenggara
Colonel Amir Hamka Manan says that he believes there are some Pertamina
officials involved in the illegal import of fuel into Timor-Leste. Speaking
from Kupang, Manan said that the tanker Buana Raya is an unofficial
Pertamina agent which delivers about 300 tonnes of fuel to Timor-Leste about
three times per week. Manan said that the only way the tanker can operate
freely in its fuel operations in Timor-Leste is if there is involvement from
Pertamina officials. He added that the lure of fuel imports to Timor-Leste
is the high price that such fuel brings in Timor-Leste?s dollar economy. (STL)
Japan trains PNTL on bomb dismantling
In order to increase the skills of the PNTL, the Japanese Government,
through the Japanese NGO the De-mining and Reconstruction Assistance Centre,
has contracted three Japanese military veterans to train 42 members of the
PNTL in dismantling unexploded ordnance. The course, considered a dangerous
and risky course, began yesterday. (Timor Post)
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