SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE END TO ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE BY ALL SIDES IN EAST TIMOR
Press Release
SG/SM/6961
SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE END TO ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE BY ALL SIDES IN EAST TIMOR
19990419 The following statement was issued on Saturday, 17 April, by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:The Secretary-General has received a series of very disturbing reports that a large number of pro-integration militia members entered Dili this morning and resorted to widespread violence and caused an undetermined number of casualties and damage to property.
The Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General, Ambassador Jamsheed Marker, is in contact with the Indonesian authorities with a view to ascertaining the facts and being informed of measures taken by the Indonesian Government.
The Secretary-General strongly deplores these new acts of violence and regrets this apparent inability of the Indonesian authorities to control the violence by the militias and to protect the civilian population. He calls for an immediate end to this escalation of violence by all sides. He considers essential the immediate establishment of a "Peace and Stability Commission".
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