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| NEW YORK (UN), Feb. 2 (Xinhua) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has recommended to extend for one year the mandate of the UN mission in Timor Leste (UNMIT), including up to presidential and legislative elections in the first half of 2012, according to a UN statement released Wednesday. "Considering the wish expressed by the President of Timor-Leste, the President of the National Parliament, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, and has communicated to me by my Special Representative, and the need to maintain support in critical areas of the mandate of UNMIT, I recommend to extend the mandate of MINURSO for a further period of 12 months in its current composition and maintaining the current authorized strength, while continuing to reduce gradually raised the number of police, "said Ban Ki-moon in a report on the situation of the country. The presidential and parliamentary elections will be organized by the electoral bodies of Timor Leste. It is envisaged, however, pending recommendations to be formulated at the end of the future electoral assessment mission requested by the Government, that the United Nations is providing technical support and logistics, said the UN chief. According to him, a presence "meaty" of the UNMIT police "will carry out these important functions of capacity building and also provide operational support to the National Police in exceptional circumstances." The number of police officers from the UN Mission should be reduced gradually from a staff of 1,480 officers to 1,280 in June 2011. |
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