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...APPOINTED. Jos? Ramos Horta, 57, Nobel laureate and East Timor's former Foreign and Trade Minister; as interim Prime Minister, after Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri resigned under pressure over violence in the nation's capital that has killed at least 21; in Dili. Ramos Horta, a founder of the ruling Freitlin party?although no longer a member of it?is widely seen as a unifying candidate who, it is hoped, can quell the political unrest that has rocked the world's newest nation since March...
...security had collapsed so completely that Foreign Minister Jos? Ramos-Horta went on Australian TV, asking for troops "to prevent the country sliding into further chaos." The first Australian forces arrived at the end of last week. The fresh need for foreign troops just a year after the departure of the last international peacekeepers raises doubts about the long-term prospects of the world's youngest nation. East Timor suffers not just from ethnic violence but from chronic crime, severe poverty and unemployment. "The way in which the country has been governed in the last few years has left...
...development." For now, the indictments remain in limbo: East Timor has no extradition treaty with Indonesia, and it's unclear whether the warrants, which must pass through the foreign ministry, will even be sent to Indonesia. But the symbolism is potent?which is why Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta travelled to Indonesia soon after the indictments were lodged to reassure Indonesia that the bilateral bond remained the new nation's focus. "Justice must not come second," says Pereira, "but the issue the President raises is how to honor justice?and that is not by revenge...
...Bishop for the Vatican and spiritual leader of his country's largely Roman Catholic population; claiming ill-health and the need for "a long period of recuperation"; in Dili, East Timor. A staunch defender of human rights, Belo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize with Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta in 1996 for their efforts to bring peace to the region, is revered for standing up to the Indonesian military during its harsh rule of East Timor before the territory's in-dependence...
...East Timorese Foreign Minister JosE Ramos Horta also would like to see "a general amnesty on the day of independence, preceded by a truth and reconciliation process. The real culprits of the crimes against East Timor," he adds, "are the Indonesian government and (army) officers who are safe in Jakarta. While they escape justice, are we going to try our own people, the small fish?" Horta believes the new Parliament will heed Gusmao's advice on amnesty and that national consensus is possible...