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Timor-Leste requests international support, 24 May 2006
This Wednesday, 24 May 2006, the violence erupted again in Dili.
Military Elements of Timor-Leste´s defence forces, FALINTIL-Forças
de Defesa de Timor-Leste (F-FDTL) were today again attacked by
breakaway, renegade elements of the F-FDTL, in Taci Tolu. In face
of that, the Government with the support of the President of Republic,
Xanana Gusmão, and the Speaker of the National Parliament,
Francisco Guterres "Lu'Olo", formally requested to the
Governments of Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Portugal the
urgent sending of military and police forces. The aim of this
help is to re-establish, as soon as possible, the public order,
the respect of the law, normality and the stability, needed to
develop the country.
This request is due of the fear clime that the renegade elements
of the F-FDTL have created among the population and due to the
difficulty showed by F-FDTL and police to control the situation.
And also because of the strong will of the Government to avoid
killings.
The international support has been requested by letters to the
chiefs of Governments of Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and
Portugal, signed by the President of Republic, by the president
of the National Parliament, and by the Prime Minister, Mari Alkatiri.
To Australia and New Zealand, the Government requests military
support to work with F-FDTL. To the Governments of Malaysia and
Portugal the request has been to receive special police forces
to support and train the PNTL. In the case of Portugal, this is
the reiteration of a request made recently to the Portuguese Prime-Minister
for the sending of a company of the GNR, whose mission would be
to train the Fast Intervention Unit of PNTL, remaining in the
country until the next year's elections.
The request to the four governments was made at a bilateral level,
together with an appeal to the United Nations to support this
intervention at a multilateral level action. That was due to the
need to fasten the effectiveness of the response.
The Government awaits with serenity the answer of our friends,
in the certain that these will not abandon Timor-Leste.
In a meeting, this morning, with the President of the Republic
and with the Speaker of the Parliament, the Head of Government
presented the situation in Dili, repeating the need to use the
F-FDTL to control the situation, having this position deserved
the support of the head of State and the Speaker of the National
Parliament.
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