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S/PV.5351 Security Council United Nations S/PV.5351 Security Council Provisional Sixty-first year 5351st meeting Monday, 23 January 2006, 10 a.m. New York President: Mr. Mahiga ...................................... (United Republic of Tanzania) Members: Argentina ....................................... Mr. Mayoral China .......................................... Mr. Wang Guangya Congo .......................................... Mr. Okio Denmark ........................................ Mr. Faaborg-Andersen France .......................................... Mr. De La Sablière Ghana .......................................... Mr. Tachie-Menson Greece ......................................... Mr. Vassilakis Japan ........................................... Mr. Oshima Peru ........................................... Mr. De Rivero Qatar ........................................... Mr. Al-Nasser Russian Federation ................................ Mr. Dolgov Slovakia ........................................ Mr. Burian United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ..... Mr. Thomson United States of America ........................... Mr. Brencick Agenda The situation in Timor-Leste Progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Office in Timor-Leste (S/2006/24) This record contains the text of speeches delivered in English and of the interpretation of speeches delivered in the other languages. The final text will be printed in the Official Records of the Security Council. Corrections should be submitted to the original languages only. They should be incorporated in a copy of the record and sent under the signature of a member of the delegation concerned to the Chief of the Verbatim Reporting Service, room C-154A. 06-21738 (E) *0621738* S/PV.5351 The meeting was called to order at 10.15 a.m. I invite Mr. Hasegawa to take a seat at the Council table. Adoption of the agenda The Security Council will now begin its The agenda was adopted. consideration of the item on its agenda. The Security Council is meeting in accordance with the The situation in Timor-Leste understanding reached in its prior consultations. Members of the Council have before them Progress report of the Secretary-General on the document S/2006/24, which contains the progress United Nations Office in Timor-Leste report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations (S/2006/24) Office in Timor-Leste. The President: I should like to inform the I wish to draw the attention of the members to Council that I have received letters from the document S/2006/39, containing the text of a letter representatives of Australia, Austria, Brazil, Indonesia, dated 20 January 2006 from the Permanent Portugal and Timor-Leste, in which they request to be Representative of Timor-Leste addressed to the invited to participate in the consideration of the item Secretary-General. on the Council’s agenda. In conformity with the usual practice, I propose, with the consent of the Council, to At this meeting, the Security Council will hear a invite those representatives to participate in the briefing by Mr. Sukehiro Hasegawa, Special discussion, without the right to vote, in accordance Representative of the Secretary-General for Timor- with the relevant provisions of the Charter and rule 37 Leste and Head of Mission of the United Nations of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure. Office in Timor-Leste. I now give him the floor. There being no objection, it is so decided. Mr. Hasegawa: It is a pleasure for me to address the Security Council on the progress made during the I request the Chief of Protocol to escort His five months since the Council last met on this item, in Excellency Mr. Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, President of August 2005. Today, I feel particularly privileged to Timor-Leste, to a seat at the Council table. address the Council in the presence of His Excellency Mr. Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, President of President Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão and Foreign Timor-Leste, was escorted to a seat at the Minister José Ramos-Horta, along with Ambassador Council table. José Guterres of Timor-Leste. The President: On behalf of the Council, I The past five months have turned out to be a extend a warm welcome to the President of Timor- productive period for the United Nations Office in Leste. Timor-Leste (UNOTIL) in implementing the three mandated programmes and in preparing for the transfer At the invitation of the President, the of capacity-building functions to United Nations representatives of the other aforementioned agencies and other development partners, as called for countries took the seats reserved for them at the in Security Council resolution 1599 (2005). side of the Council Chamber. Let me start with the first component of the The President: In accordance with the UNOTIL mandate implementation, that is, support to understanding reached in the Council’s prior critical State institutions. Since 2002, international consultations, I shall take it that the Security Council advisers provided by the United Nations and bilateral agrees to extend an invitation under rule 39 of its development partners have achieved a great deal of provisional rules of procedure to Mr. Sukehiro progress in building the capacity of the Timorese to Hasegawa, Special Representative of the Secretary- administer their public institutions. As a result, the General for Timor-Leste and Head of Mission of the number of international advisers provided by the United Nations Office in Timor-Leste. United Nations system has declined from nearly 300 It is so decided. three years ago to about 100 at the end of last year. 2 S/PV.5351 I am pleased to note that, during the past five appropriate United Nations agencies, financial months, UNOTIL civilian advisers accelerated their institutions and other development partners. efforts to transfer skills and knowledge, and that their Let me now turn to the second UNOTIL mandate: Timorese counterparts are now demonstrating to provide support for the observance of democratic increased ability and willingness to carry out their governance and human rights. We have assigned duties. Yet national capacities in highly technical areas, human rights officers to Government ministries and such as justice and finance, remain extremely weak, State institutions, with the aim of strengthening their and it has become evident that international advisory capacity to protect and promote human rights. In that support, especially in those two areas, will be required connection, it is commendable that the Office of the for some years to come. Provedor for Human Rights and Justice has indeed In the justice sector, eight international judges made great progress in drafting a strategic plan and have continued to provide training, as well as to establishing a complaint-handling system in perform line functions in court, including the handling preparation for the opening of the Office to the public of serious criminal cases. The presence of international in March 2006. Beyond May, human rights activities judges has greatly contributed to the efficient will need continued attention by the international disposition of the cases and has reduced the time for community. I am pleased to inform the Security completing trials to five months. Nonetheless, it will Council that the Office of the United Nations High take a few more years for the national judges to Commissioner for Human Rights is fully committed to become self-sufficient, as they are still undergoing providing the necessary assistance and sending a needs basic judicial training. assessment mission next month for the purpose of clearly identifying post-UNOTIL requirements. President Gusmão recently expressed his concern about the capacity of public prosecutors to deal Under the leadership of Foreign Minister José adequately with as many as 3,000 pending civil and Ramos-Horta, Timor-Leste has demonstrated a criminal cases. This situation needs urgent attention remarkable commitment to establishing a normative indeed, as all the national prosecutors commenced international human rights framework through its early specialized training in January and will not be able to ratification of the full range of the core human rights attend to their responsibilities. Additional international treaties in 2003 and 2004. Timor-Leste is about to prosecutors are, therefore, required. The recent complete its final initial human rights reports under the inauguration of the law faculty of the National Convention on the Rights of the Child and the University of Timor Lorosa’e will provide a long-term Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of sustainable solution to the lack of adequate national Discrimination Against Women, with the support of legal expertise. United Nations agencies and human rights officers. In the finance sector, a great deal of progress has I am pleased that the Commission for Reception, been made in building national expertise. As a result, Truth and Reconciliation has just completed its report, the number of United Nations-funded advisers was and that the President handed it to the Secretary- dramatically reduced from nearly 70 three and a half General last Friday. As President Gusmão will report, years ago, to less than 10, along with several bilateral the Commission has covered a wide range of issues and advisers, by the end of last year. Currently, six made several specific recommendations that require UNOTIL civilian advisers are supporting the Ministry careful consideration. of Planning and Finance. The World Bank has shown I shall now turn to the third
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