[KCDXC] Fwd: Democratic Republic of Timor Leste

[Dave Anderson, K4SV]

So does that mean a new DXCC entity? :)

Dave, K4SV
Asheville, NC



----- Original Message -----=20
From: Mike ZooLoo=20
To: Mediterraneo DX Club ; KCDXC=20
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 3:46 PM
Subject: [KCDXC] Fwd: Democratic Republic of Timor Leste



4W1BK (JA1BK) and 4W2DN (JR2KDN) will be QRV from
Timor Leste from May 24 to May 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.

WA2MOE


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