News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

Timor-Leste, 10 July 2012 - World Population Day is being celebrated tomorrow (11/07) to raise awareness of the importance of population issues and their relationship to health and development. This year's theme in Timor-Leste is Family Planning: It's a right. Make it real. At a press conference in…

25 August 2006, DILI— The Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) for Timor Leste, Sukehiro Hasegawa today visited the two western border districts of Cova Lima and Bobonaro where he listened to the challenges that lie ahead for local residents and solicited the views of national…

28 August 2006, DILI— An initial measure kicking off the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) commenced this past weekend with "Operation Blue Breeze," part of a project called Streamlining Traffic Education Programme (STEP) aimed at community awareness education and focusing on…

30 August 2006, DILI— Immediately after receiving information that an estimated 57 prisoners, including Major Alfredo Reinado escaped from Becora Prison, just east of Dili, United Nations Police (UNPOL) and international security forces mounted a wide-spread search effort. Special Representative of…

30 August 2006 – United Nations Police and international security forces in Timor-Leste today mounted a widespread search for the dozens of prisoners who have escaped from Becora Prison, just east of the capital, Dili. They are seeking to apprehend the escaped prisoners through intensified…

30 August 2006, DILI— United Nations Special Representative for the Secretary-General in Timor-Leste Sukehiro Hasegawa held a press conference today, with UN Acting Police Commissioner Antero Lopes and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commander Steve Lancaster. They briefed the media on measures…

2 September 2006, DILI— Police Advisor Antero Lopes has been designated Acting Police Commissioner for United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT). Mr. Lopes joined the mission in mid-August. He had previously assisted in the planning of the police component of the new Mission as a…

6 September 2006, DILI— The Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) for Timor Leste, Sukehiro Hasegawa today visited the eastern most district of Lautem where he solicited the views of local government officials and national police officers (PNTL) on the current situation in the…

7 September 2006, DILI— Finn Reske-Nielsen has been appointed as Deputy Special- Representative for the Secretary General (DSRSG) for Governance Support, Development and Humanitarian Coordination for United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT). Mr. Reske-Nielsen took up his post…

14 September 2006, DILI— A ceremony for the official handing-over of executive policing authority from the International Police in Timor-Leste to the United Nations Police (UNPOL) took place yesterday in front of the Palácio do Governo in the capital city of Dili. Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta…

18 September 2006, Dili – At a Security Task Force meeting held on Friday 15 September, Sukehiro Hasegawa, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Timor-Leste, discussed with Brigadier-General Mick Slater, UN Police Commissioner Antero Lopes and other police contingent commanders the…

19 September 2006, DILI—UN Police (UNPOL) yesterday made a second arrest for an incident that occurred on 1 September at the Jardim Internally Displaced Persons' (IDP) camp near the sea port in the capital of Dili in which five people suffered gun shot injuries when a group of men carrying firearms…