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Mambi Watch (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
J ose Ramos-Horta is winner of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and current President of Timor-Leste. He spoke to the UN General Assembly last week (September 25, 2008) and addressed the US embargo towards Cuba. In his own words... -----[Excerpt from full speech( PDF )]----- Timor-Leste is a LDC [Least Developed Country]. However, the Almighty God has bestowed on us some modest oil, gas and...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
"In our situation forgiveness is a necessity - for an individual who is a victim, to get on with his or her life, but before she or he forgives, truth has to be acknowledged, responsibilities have to be acknowledged, and then the victim feels at ease and can forgive," said Dr Ramos Horta.
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The Age (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Red tape bungle after Ramos Horta shootingLindsay Murdoch, Darwin September 12, 2008 Page 1 of 2 | RED tape delayed Australian soldiers pursuing rebels involved in the February 11 attacks on East Timor's top two political leaders, a confidential United Nations investigation has found.Investigators also found that soldiers serving in the Australian-led International Stabilisation Force...
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
President Jose Ramos-Horta of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste delivered a statement at the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Horta mentioned the improving economy of his country.
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UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Continuing our coverage of some of the speeches of world leaders at the General Assembly, yesterday the president of East Timor, where the UN has maintained a peacekeeping presence since 1999, proclaimed the dawning of a new era of peace for his country. Addressing the UN -- albeit perhaps not in the role he may have expected that he would -- President Jose Ramos-Horta applauded the progress...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Gunbattles between rival security forces killed dozens in Dili in 2006 and toppled the government, while rebel troops in February tried to assassinate President Jose Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao. Australia has around 1,000 peacekeeping forces stationed across the mountainous nation of around a million people.
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UN News Centre (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
... Civil and Political Rights, aimed at eliminating the death penalty. Timor-Leste’s President, José Ramos-Horta, similarly took part in the event, signing the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.The Bahamas actively endorsed four treaties, ratifying the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and three additional protocols concerning human trafficking and the illicit manufacturing...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
... and Yusupova have won the Norwegian Rafto Prize. Four other Rafto winners - Aung San Suu Kyi, Jose Ramos-Horta, Kim Dae-jung and Shirin Ebadi - went on to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Two politicians possibly under consideration were Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in Zimbabwe and former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt held...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
EAST Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta has rejected reports that rebel leader Alfredo Reinado was executed rather than killed in a gunbattle with police.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
... sometimes called "untouchables". Four previous Rafto Prize winners - Aung San Suu Kyi, Jose Ramos-Horta, Kim Dae-jung and Shirin Ebadi - later went on to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The 2006 Rafto Prize was awarded to Thich Quang Do, a pro- democracy activist and deputy patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam that is not recognized by the Vietnamese government.
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
The Timorese President, Jose Ramos-Horta, said the victims found next to Dili airport should be honoured, but he told the ABC that reconciliation with Indonesia was more important than dredging up its former crimes.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
... presidential guards. However, his men continued the shootout and 30 minutes later President Jose Ramos-Horta was shot twice as he walked toward his home. According to the autopsy report, the card was found during the autopsy the afternoon of February 11, reported The Timor Post. With a citizenship card, or KTP card as they are known in Indonesian, Reinado could have fled Timor after...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
AUSTRALIA must help East Timor deal with an exploding cane toad population, President Jose Ramos Horta says.
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New Zeal (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
New Zealand taxpayers need to confront the reality that the money and troops we have committed to East Timor are propping up a pro-Cuban, socialist regime. From Cuba's Granma "AT this very difficult time, I bring friendship and solidarity for the Cuban people, who have always supported our struggle for independence and self-determination," affirmed José Ramos Horta, president of the Democratic...
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The Australian (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
... life'. He was not the same person." The following day Reinado was dead, shot inside President Jose Ramos Horta's villa after a dawn visit and, soon after, Ramos Horta would be lying on the road outside his home after being hit by two bullets. Reinado had become desperate. He'd offended just about everyone in authority in East Timor with his refusal to surrender his stolen...
