East Timor And The International Community: Basic Documents

From: Journal of Third World Studies | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Krieger, Heike. (ed.). East Timor And The International Community: Basic Documents. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 494 pp.

Geographically, East Tunor is situated in the eastern half of the island of Timor, located at the eastern end of the Sundra Archipelago, some 430 kilometers northwest of Australia. In 1701, Portugal claimed East Timor as a colony while the Netherlands claimed the western portion of the island as a colony. Boundary agreements were first concluded between the two Colonial Powers in 1859, and boundary disagreements were resolved in 1914 by the Permanent Court ...

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