Brief presented by ETAN to the Special Committee on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. (1994)
Statement by Li-Lien Gibbons, ETAN (1992)
Statement by União Democrática Timorense (1992)
Statement by Jose Ramos-Horta, National Council of Maubere Resistance (1992)
Mainly Australian peak bodies and individual union resolutions and correspondence. Also copy of letter to President Suharto from the Philippines Kilusang Mayo Uno Labor Centre.
This document contains sixteen separate documents.
“Pétition au Comité de Décolonisation, Juillet 1994” [Translated: Petition to the committee of decolonization] from Agir pour Timor. They are asking the committee to provide, information to the public on its work in favour of the people of East Timor to self-determination. That this Committee exclude Indonesia, as a member, from any decision-making process concerning East Timor, under the principle of law that one cannot be both judge and party. That this committee recommend to the Secretary General to do everything in his power to obtain the release of Xanana Gusmao, as a symbol of the Timorese resistance movement, without neglecting to intervene for the release of the other Timorese political prisoners and that this committee recommends to the Secretary General to make public the two reports of Mr. Amos Wako. | 3 pages, all in French
“Statement by the British Coalition for East Timor to the U.N. Decolonization Committee - New York. 13 July 1994” | 4 pages
“Statement on East Timor to the UN Special Committee on Decolonization by Pedro Pinto Leite, Secretary-General of the International Platform of Jurists for East Timor. | 3 pages
“Petition to the United Nations Special Committee of 24 in support of the struggler self-determination of the peoples of East Timor from Philippine Solidarity for East Timor and Indonesia (PSETI) July 13, 1994” | 3 pages
“General Assembly Resolution 3485 - 12 December 1975 - Question of Timor” | 2 pages
“S/RES/384 (1975) Adopted by the Security Council in its 1389th meeting on 22 December 1975” | 2 pages
“S/RES/389 (1976) Adopted by the Security Council at its 1914th meeting on 22 April 1976” | 2 pages
“Back to the Beginning: Report of an Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA) Delegation to East Timor, 5-13 June 1999 - Executive Summary and Key Recommendations” | 3 pages
“Petition of the Asia-Pacific Coalition for East Timor (APCET) at the United Nations’ Committee of 24 by Augusto N. Mictat, Jr.” 23 June 1999 | 3 pages
“Petition to the U.N. Committee on Decolonization written by Canadian Action for Indonesia and East Timor (CAFIET)” New York, June 22, 1999. | 5 pages
“Petition of East Timor International Support Center (ETISC), Darwin, Australia, to the United Nations’ Committee of 24” June 21, 1999. | 6 pages
“Petition of the Indonesian people regarding the resolution of the East Timor Problem written by Fortilos, Solidarity forum with the People of Timor Lorosae” | 3 pages
“Brief presented by Bishop Paul Yoshinao Otsuka, Bishop in charge of the Japan Catholic Council for Justice and Peace to the Special Committee on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples” 22 June 1999. | 3 pages
“Petition on the Question of East Timor” written by Östtimorkommittén (East Timor Committee) Sweden. 22 June 1999.
“Statement on East Timor to the United Nations Special Committee of 24,23 June 1999 by TAPOL, the Indonesia Human Rights Campaign” | 4 pages
Report of the Special Committee on the situation with regard to the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples. Specifically, Western Sahara, East Timor and Gibraltar.
The file consists of documents pertaining to the United States Congress and its interactions and involvement with East Timor from 1985 and 1986. It consists of press clippings, the official Congressional Record, a report, correspondence, press releases, and a Resolution to express the sense of Congress regarding East Timor.