Dansk embedsmand fastslår: FN vil fortsat være engageret i Østtimor efter nytår, hvor den fredsbevarende mission udløber. Det skriver FN på sin hjemmeside mandag.
NEW YORK, 12th November 2012 – The United Nations and the broader international community will remain engaged in Timor-Leste beyond December, when the world body’s peacekeeping mission withdraws from the country, a top UN official told the Security Council today.
“Timor-Leste still faces many challenges. However, a peacekeeping mission is no longer best placed to support efforts to meet those challenges,” said the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT), Finn Reske-Nielsen.
“The time has come for Timor-Leste’s interaction with the international community to be guided through different structures and modalities,” he added in his briefing to the 15-member body.
Mr. Reske-Nielsen reported that UNMIT is on track to withdraw by 31 December and that the phased drawdown of the mission has been moving apace.
Earlier this year, the Council extended the mandate of UNMIT – which it first established in 2006 in the wake of a major political, humanitarian and security crisis that erupted that year – for a final period, so the Mission could assist the country with several key tasks this year.
Læs mere om FN’s engagement i Østtimor på FN’s nyhedsside: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43473&&Cr=timor-leste&&Cr1=#
