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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Portugal blocks EC agreement with Indonesia
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.231451.429@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 23:14:51 GMT
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- /** reg.easttimor: 349.1 **/
- ** Written 7:37 am Jul 23, 1992 by gn:tapol in cdp:reg.easttimor **
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- ** Topic: Portugal's Blackball **
- ** Written 6:07 pm Jul 21, 1992 by igc:apakabar in gn:reg.indonesia **
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- AFP, Brussels, July 20 - Portugal prevented its European Community
- partners on Monday from carrying on negotiations on a new cooperation
- agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), diplomatic
- sources said here.
- At a meeting of E.C. foreign ministers, Portuguese minister Joao de Deus
- Pinheiro pointed to what he termed Indonesia's non-observance of human rights
- in East Timor in explaining Portugal's stand.
- A Portuguese spokesman commented, "Since 1991, the European Community
- has made a clear connection between human rights and signature of cooperation
- agreements. Moreover, it has condemned Indonesia at the United Nations because
- of the situation in Timor".
- Portugal wants the E.C. to ask Indonesia to show some accommodation in the
- matter, for instance, by releasing the political prisoners in Timor. East
- Timor, a former Portuguese colony, was invaded by Indonesia in 1975 and then
- annexed.
- On Monday, Portugal suggested to its partners that the community should
- conclude bilateral agreements with the other ASEAN members: Malaysia,
- Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and Brunei.
- An E.C.-ASEAN meeting is scheduled for Manila July 24-26. But diplomatic
- sources commented that the agenda, which called for negotiations on renewal
- and strengthening of the cooperation agreement between the two sides that has
- existed since 1980, could not be followed.
-
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