UN lowers security status in West Timor

UN lowers security status in West Timor

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: The United Nations Security
Council lowered its security status in West Timor regency to
Alert IV from Alert V after an evaluation by the UN Security
Coordination team on May 13 this year, a senior military officer
said here on Monday.

The evaluation concluded that security in West Timor had
returned to normal following the murder of three employees of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2000, according
to Col. Moeswarno Moesanip, chief of the Wirasakti Military
Command overseeing East Nusa Tenggara province.

The lowering of the security status clears the way for UN
employees to resume humanitarian activities in the regency, said
Moeswarno. -- JP