The diplomacy on East Timor: Indonesia, the United Nations and the international community

Abstract

‘The diplomacy on East Timor: Indonesia, the United Nations and the International Community’ is divided broadly into four sections. The first deals with Indonesia’s interest in and invasion of East Timor and the nature of the issue in the international sphere prior to the emergence of the Habibie administration. The second section is centred on the complicated diplomatic process between the time of Habibie’s initial statement, and the ballot in East Timor on 30 August 1999. The third analyses the events from the ballot until 2000. The chapter concludes with a summary of prospects and problems likely to be faced in the years ahead by an independent East Timor, within the community of nations