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Article: EAST TIMOR: GROUPS BLAST SLOW U.N. PROCESS ON DECOLONIZATION
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- July 24, 1996
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Farhan Haq
Inter Press Service English News Wire
07-24-1996
UNITED NATIONS, Jul. 23 (IPS) -- Activists supporting
independence for East Timor are worried that statements by a U.N.
committee chairman show just how much support Indonesia's
two-decade occupation of East Timor enjoys at the United Nations.
The question of East Timor has been before the U.N.
Decolonization Committee since 1961.
But the United Nations has made little headway in resolving the
post-colonial status of East Timor, which is still a Portuguese
colony, although it has been occupied by Indonesia since 1975.
Now, comments made last month in Indonesia by the chair of the
Decolonization Committee have convinced some groups ...