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A high-level international team overseeing the integrity of Timor-Leste's 2007 presidential and parliamentary elections has arrived in Dili this week on its first mission ahead of next year's polls. The Electoral…
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9 November 2006, Dili--- United Nations Police has stepped up patrols in Dili's local communities. Dili residents should notice the heightened number of police patrols, as UNPOL puts a significant number of new vehicles into…
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15 November 2006, DILI—Eric Tan Huck Gim has been appointed as Deputy Special- Representative for the Secretary General (DSRSG) for Security Sector and Rule of Law for United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT)…
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17 November 2006, Dili--- Forty-five United Nations Volunteers (UNVs) arrived in Timor-Leste this week to begin their work supporting the nation with its fast-approaching first post-independence 2007 national elections…
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20 November 2006 – The United Nations is stepping up its police presence in Timor-Leste after two killings in the past 24 hours in Dili, the capital of the small and impoverished South-East Asian nation. UN Police (UNPOL) has…
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29 November 2006, Dili---Following investigations into a homicide that occurred on 19 November in Maubisse District of Ainaro, the National Police of Timor Leste (PNTL) with the assistance of UNPol have arrested three…
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01 December 2006, Dili—In a first ever such arrangement between a sovereign nation and the UN, the Timorese Government and the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) today agreed that UNMIT would have prime…
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6 December 2006, Dili-- A senior police advisor from the Philippines has been designated the Police Commissioner for the United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) Rodolfo Asel Tor joined the mission on December 2. He was…
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Dili, December 8, 2006 - Seventeen people arrested last Tuesday in relation to an alleged attack on the police post in Bidau have been remanded in custody after appearing in the Dili District Court yesterday. The judge…
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08 December 2006, Dili--- Following their recent arrival, the first 40 electoral United Nations Volunteers (UNVs) showed off their recently acquired Tetum language skills at a "Tetun Only" performance today. The electoral…