Independence History Society and Culture Leste Timor

Reports and commentary from international press on the Independence Day festivities 19./20 May 2002 and the situation of the newborn country.

• BBC News: East Timor: Birth of a nation - East Timor becomes the world's newest nation, as a declaration of independence ends 450 years of foreign rule.
  
• Celebrating the Birth of a Nation - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan congratulates the people of East Timor on their perseverance in rebuilding their country.
  
• The United Nations Will Stay - Speech by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, delivered in Dili, East Timor, on the occasion of East Timor's accession to independence, 19 May 2002.
  
• PBS Online NewsHour: East Timor Independence - Coverage of the independence process: articles, interviews and archive.
  
  

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