The United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) was established by
Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, an ...
Resolution 1246 on 11 June 1999 for a period up to 31 August 1999.
By
Security Council Resolution 1257 of 3 August UNAMET was extended to 30 September 1999.
Mandate
To organise and conduct a
popular consultation on the basis of a direct, secret and universal ballot, to ascertain whether the
East Timor
East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-w ...
ese people accept the proposed constitutional framework providing for a special autonomy for East Timor within the
unitary Republic
A unitary state is a sovereign state governed as a single entity in which the central government is the supreme authority. The central government may create (or abolish) administrative divisions (sub-national units). Such units exercise only t ...
of Indonesia or reject the proposed special autonomy for East Timor, leading to East Timor’s separation from Indonesia, in accordance with the General Agreement and to enable the Secretary-General to discharge his responsibility under paragraph 3 of the Security Agreement.
Staff
* Personal Representative of the Secretary-General: Ambassador
Jamsheed Marker
Jamsheed Marker (24 November 1922 – 21 June 2018), was a Pakistani diplomat and a former cricket commentator. The recipient of Hilal-e-Imtiaz, he was associated with diplomatic career for over 42 years. He was notable for his tenure as A ...
(Pakistan)
* Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Mr
Ian Martin (United Kingdom)
* Deputy Personal Representative of the Secretary-General: Mr
Francesc Vendrell (Spain)
* Chief of Civilian Police: Commissioner Alan Mills (Australia)
* Chief Military Liaison Officer: Brigadier General Rezaqul Haider (Bangladesh)
* Electoral Commissioners: Patrick A. Bradley (Ireland), Johann Kriegler (South Africa) and Bong-Scuk Sohn (South Korea)
* Chief Electoral Officer: Mr Jeff Fischer (United States)
* Chief Administrative Officer: Mr Johanes Wortel (The Netherlands)
* Chief Political Officer: Ms Beng Yong Chew (Singapore)
* Chief of Public Information: Mr David Wimhurst (Canada)
International Staff: current deployment = 210 (full deployment = 242)
Civilian Police: current deployment = 271 (fully deployed)
Contributions from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Ghana,
Ireland
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, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Mozambique, Nepal,
New Zealand
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, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal,
Republic of Korea
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,
Russian Federation
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, Senegal, Spain, Sweden, Thailand,
United Kingdom
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, Uruguay, US, Zimbabwe
Military Liaison Officers: current deployment = 50 (fully deployed)
Contributions from Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Denmark, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Portugal, Russian Federation, Thailand, United Kingdom, US, Uruguay
UN Volunteers: current deployment = 422 (full deployment = 425) (includes district electoral officers, support staff and medical unit) Contributions from 67 countries
Local Staff: current figure = 668 core staff (401 hired for 20 days voter registration period and an additional 3,600 will be hired for a five-day period before and after the ballot – 5 local staff at each polling station)
In popular culture
*UNAMET is depicted in the
ABC television ABC Television most commonly refers to:
*ABC Television Network of the American Broadcasting Company, United States, or
*ABC Television (Australian TV network), a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia
ABC Television or ABC ...
series, ''
Answered By Fire
''Answered by Fire'' is a two-part television film based on the 1999 conflicts in East Timor that led to its independence in 2002. The film is based on "Dancing with the Devil: A Personal Account of Policing the East Timor Vote for Independence ...
'' (2006).
*Hazel, Geoff (2020)
Picture a Dry Riverbed Historical autobiography of the civilian police in the District of Ermera, East Timor as they assisted in the conduct of the Popular Consultation.
*Pemper, Tammy (2019)
Scorched Earth Big Sky Publishing. A biography from a peacekeeper's perspective, based on actual events in Timor during the historical 1999 referendum.
Further reading
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References
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