20 March 2001 -- More than 6,000 East Timorese were registered over the past three days since the national civil registration started last Friday, the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) said today in Dili.

Over 1,000 people were registered on the first day, nearly 2,000 on Saturday and over 3,000 yesterday, UNTAET said in a statement.

Registration sites have opened in all districts but Viqueque, due to last week's security situation. However, civil registration offices are expected to open in two to three days. Registration officers - some of whom have lost all their belongings in last week's violence - are now back in Viqueque. By the end of this week all 65 sites in all sub-districts are expected to be fully operational.

In other news, China has offered to build East Timor's future Foreign Affairs Ministry building, at a cost of $4 million, for which an agreement was signed today in Dili between UNTAET chief Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Chinese Vice-Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Sun Guagxiang.

 

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