SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN LONDON, HOLDS SEVENTH ROUND OF TALKS ON EAST TIMOR

Press Release
SG/T/2024

SECRETARY-GENERAL, IN LONDON, HOLDS SEVENTH ROUND OF TALKS ON EAST TIMOR

LONDON, 16 January -- Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali held the seventh round of talks on the question of East Timor in London today with the Foreign Minister of Portugal, Jaime Gama, and the Foreign Minister of Indonesia, Ali Alatas. At 10 a.m., the Secretary-General met with Foreign Minister of Portugal for one hour. At 11 a.m., he met with the Foreign Minister of Indonesia for one hour. At noon he chaired a joint expanded meeting with delegations from both sides attending. The Secretary-General is accompanied by his Special Adviser, Under-Secretary-General Yasushi Akashi. At 2 p.m., the talks continued over a working lunch and then resumed in the afternoon.

The agenda of the talks included developments since the last round of talks in Geneva on 8 July 1995, and issues relating to an eventual framework for a just, comprehensive and internationally acceptable solution to the question of East Timor.

The talks were concluded at 5:30 p.m., after which a statement was made in London by the spokesman travelling with the Secretary-General, and issued simultaneously as a press release in New York and Geneva.

At 6 p.m., the Secretary-General met the former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd.

The Secretary-General return to New York tomorrow, 17 January.

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