Another E. Timor conference planned

Another E. Timor conference planned

BOGOR, West Java: A two day EU-INA conference on East Timor,
jointly organized by Indonesia's Research Institute for Democracy
and Peace (Ridep) and the Institute for Strategic and
International Studies (IEEI) of Portugal ended here on Thursday,
recommending that a further meeting be held in Singapore or East
Timor.

Minister of Industry and Trade Luhut Panjaitan suggested in
his closing speech that a new vision of Indonesia's former 27th
province be built.

"An exchange of journalists or cultural campaigns between
Portugal and Indonesia would probably work in promoting the new
vision," Luhut said.

Jose Ramos Horta, vice president of the National Council for
East Timor Resistance (CNRT), IEEI Director Alvaro Vasconcelos,
UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET)
representative N. Parameswaran, Cornelis Lay of Gadjah Mada
University, European Union Ambassador Klauspeter Schmallenbach
and deputy secretary-general of Resistencia Nacional Estudante de
Timor Leste Mariano Lopez were among those attending the
conference at the Novotel Bogor. (21/sur)