UN Security Council to meet with Indonesian envoy on situation
in West Timor
14 September -- The United Nations Security Council today announced that it planned to discuss the deteriorating security situation in West Timor privately with a special envoy dispatched to New York by the Indonesian Government. Ambassador Moctar Ouane of Mali, the Council's President for the month of September, told the press today at UN Headquarters that the Security Council would meet with Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian Coordinating Minister, following his arrival in New York on 17 September.
According to Ambassador Ouane, the Council also recalled its decision last Friday to send a Security Council mission to Indonesia and East Timor to discuss the implementation of its resolution 1319. Adopted on 8 September, that resolution called on Indonesia to disarm and disband the militias in West Timor, restore law and order, ensure the safety of refugees and humanitarian workers, and prevent incursions into East Timor. The call came in the wake of the murder of three UN aid workers by militias in West Timor on 6 September.
The Security Council looked forward to discussing with Mr. Yudhoyono the steps that the Indonesian Government was taking to implement resolution 1319, the Council President said.
Meanwhile in Dili, the capital of East Timor, the UN mission reported today that the bodies of the slain UN staff members had been identified by a medical examiner and would be flown to their home countries later this week.
