To advance the peace process, it will be important to put an end to the escalating violence in the north and east and to strictly uphold the cease-fire. The people of Sri Lanka deserve a new hope that peace could be in reach.
Today I ask all the parties to bring to an end the violence that for 24 years has caused untold suffering to East Timor,
In less than 12 hours, East Timor will be an independent country, a moment of pride and liberation,
Strong and energetic leadership is especially vital in all countries in Asia and Eastern Europe, where the opportunity to prevent the epidemic from becoming generalized is quickly vanishing.
This moment belongs, above all , to the people of East Timor who have so richly earned their freedom.
Such acts of provocation and vandalism will not deter the U.N. mission in East Timor from fulfilling its obligations,
Those who are responsible for the atrocities in East Timor must be held accountable, ... So, basically it is in the hands of Indonesia.
Ameen Rihani, one of the earliest Arab Americans, devoted his life to bringing the East and the West together. We are not of the East or the West, he wrote. No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free.
There are no winners, and there are no losers today, ... This moment heralds the opportunity for all East Timorese to begin to forge together a common future in what is to become an independent East Timor.