[Dxpeditions] I.C.P.O. Update (May 22, 2003)

[Jose E. Ribeiro Sa]

Let me correct some of the things that are being said in this article and
clear two
points for you:

1) I have no objections of seeing a new DXCC entity coming up.

2) I really know what Iam talking about, Iam not commenting the situation
about
    timor-Leste from home, we the Portuguese know more than anyone else
    about the situation in every detail and remember I was
    there.

Now lets comment:
> The United Nations no longer is in control and independence was won by the
> East Timorese on May 20, 2002. An application for new entity status will
be
> filed together with an application to delete of the former 4W territory as
> an entity under DXCC rules.
---> The Independence was declared in 1975 (I have a photo to prove it), the
        Territory was then invaded by Indonesian forces not to stop a Civil
War
        (that never happenned) but to keep a "pro-Comunist" type of
government
        away from an American area of influence (Indonesia and Australia).
        For the UN Timor-Leste was still a Territory under Portuguese
Administration
        until we gave that administration to UNAMET (then UNTAET) in fall of
1999.

> Article 5 of the treaty between Portugal and Indonesia of May 5, 1999
> removed East Timor from the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories of the
> General Assembly and the deletion of the question of East Timor from the
> agendas of the Security Council and the General Assembly.
---> Wrong it was removed from a Portuguese administered territory to a UN
        Administered Territory (it was NOT classified a
Non-Self-Governing -Territory).

> witnessed by the Secretary General of the United Nations, did not make the
> United Nations the administrator of East Timor but did provide for UN
> humanitarian assistance. Article 7 requested "the Secretary-General to
> maintain an adequate United Nations presence in East Timor."
---> Really strange, what are your bases to say this nosense ???
       The Administrator of the Territory was Sergio Vieira de Melo (a
Brasilian UN
       officer), he had a working Government with ministries, I personally
knew quite well
       the ministry of Internal Affairs and security and the Ministry of
Education.
      The Government was made 50/50 by East-Timorese and International UN
Officers.

> The DX Advisory and Awards Committees quite possibly misinterpreted the
> language of the treaty as conferring status of East Timor as a UN
> administered territory which in fact was not the case.
---> Ofcourse it was a UN Administered Territory, we the Portuguese gave it
to the
        UN to establish and rule with a Government, what the ADMINISTRATOR
        Mr. Sergio Vieira de Melo did.

THE UNITED NATIONS WERE NOT THERE ONLY FOR HUMANITARIAN
WORK BUT TO RULE.

 Only when the
referendum authorized by the treaty was held and the East Timorese people
declared themselves independent was there a new entity.
---> The Referendum was made in 1999.

> The role of UNTAET (UN Transitional Administration in East Timor) was
> humanitarian and peacekeeping and was not a quasi-government authorized to
> issue amateur radio licenses. UNTAET did not have the authority to issue
> amateur radio licenses; it was a peacekeeping mission and only after the
> referendum was there a Ministry of Communications which does have that
> authority.
---> Once again, the UNTAET was a real Government.

---> And Licenses were being issued by the Telecomunications Service
        of the UN HQ, as it must and has to be done in a UN ADMINISTERED
        Territory.

I hope that clears the matter.
73


Jose  CT1EEB

24/05/2003:  Look for 4W1BK (JA1BK) and 4W2DN (JR2KDN) to be QRV from Timor
Leste (OC-148) between May 24 and 29, 2003. QSL information is 4W1BK via
WA2MOE and 4W1DN via JR2KDN. This is a WFWL operation.

The United Nations no longer is in control and independence was won by the
East Timorese on May 20, 2002. An application for new entity status will be
filed together with an application to delete of the former 4W territory as
an entity under DXCC rules.

Article 5 of the treaty between Portugal and Indonesia of May 5, 1999
removed East Timor from the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories of the
General Assembly and the deletion of the question of East Timor from the
agendas of the Security Council and the General Assembly. The treaty,
witnessed by the Secretary General of the United Nations, did not make the
United Nations the administrator of East Timor but did provide for UN
humanitarian assistance. Article 7 requested "the Secretary-General to
maintain an adequate United Nations presence in East Timor."

The DX Advisory and Awards Committees quite possibly misinterpreted the
language of the treaty as conferring status of East Timor as a UN
administered territory which in fact was not the case. Only when the
referendum authorized by the treaty was held and the East Timorese people
declared themselves independent was there a new entity.

The role of UNTAET (UN Transitional Administration in East Timor) was
humanitarian and peacekeeping and was not a quasi-government authorized to
issue amateur radio licenses. UNTAET did not have the authority to issue
amateur radio licenses; it was a peacekeeping mission and only after the
referendum was there a Ministry of Communications which does have that
authority.

The text of the treaty for those interested is at:
http://www.un.org/peace/etimor99/agreement/agreeFrame_Eng01.html

If ARRL agrees, the UN sanctioned operations in East Timor would be deleted
on the ground that East Timor was not an entity under the rules and a new
entity, would be created effective 20 May 2002, the date of the creation of
the East Timorese state. Democratic Republic of Timor Leste became a UN
state on 27 September, 2002.

ITU has reassigned 4WA-4WZ to the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste on 23
April, 2003. [Tnx WA2MOE]