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...Does that become harder to achieve if Xanana Gusm?o doesn't run for President again next year? My President considered not running again, but maybe the current troubles will change his mind. I hope so. As for me, I would hope that by next year I can retire as Foreign Minister...
...What happens now? Most likely, nothing. With a per-capita gdp of just $478, East Timor remains one of the world's poorest nations, and wants to keep friendly ties with Indonesia, its largest trading partner. East Timor President Xanana Gusm?o has rejected CAVR's call for reparations and a war-crimes tribunal, saying he wants South African-style truth and reconciliation rather than punishment. "It's not so important to look at the figures [in the study]," he said. "It is important to look at the lessons...
...capture the oil and gas fields to the east and west of the JPDA. But first it must persuade Australia, and then the Indonesians (who occupied the territory between 1975-99), with whom sea-boundary talks are imminent. "The petroleum resources are utterly essential to East Timor," says President Xanana Gusm?o. "We desperately need funds to fix roads, to build up our schools and health system. Our international donors say ?But you have all this oil and gas. So don't ask us for more money...
...capturing the oil and gas fields to the east and west of the JPDA. But first it must persuade Australia, and then the Indonesians (who occupied the territory between 1975 and 1999), with whom sea-boundary talks are imminent. "The petroleum resources are utterly essential to East Timor," President Xanana Gusm?o told Time on the eve of the April 19-22 talks. "We desperately need funds to fix roads, to build up our schools and health system. Our international donors say 'But you have all this oil and gas. So don't ask us for more money...
...challenges, from constructing a viable economy to repairing lives ravaged by more than 20 years of violence and misery. None have endured more than the former members of the guerrilla group Falintil, those most responsible for liberating East Timor. For two decades these defiant fighters clung to what President Xanana Gusmao, himself a former guerrilla leader, once called the "sacred ideal" of independence. Now that they have achieved it, these same men are struggling to find a place in the country they helped create. Many are maimed and traumatized, or find themselves without a family, a home, an education...