Abilio to be sworn in

DILI, East Timor: Minister of Home Affairs Moch. Yogie S.M. will install Abilio Jose Osorio Soares for a second term as governor of East Timor tomorrow.

The chairman of the East Timor Legislative Council, Armindo Soares Mariano, said the ceremony would be held at a special council plenary session.

Abilio, born in Laclubar, East Timor, on June 4, 1947, first became governor in September 1992, replacing Mario Viegas Carrascalao who also served two terms as governor.

The governor's spokesman, Expedito Dias Ximenes, said Carrascalao and former governor Guilherme Maria Goncalves would both attend the ceremony.