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Old Mar 19th, 2003, 04:51 PM       
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East Timor was yet another UN failure, sure after the proclaimation of independence in East Timor the three-year period of United Nations transitional administration was a great success, but East Timorese people were never given the chance to decide whether they wanted to have their lives determined by this cabal of Western pro-corporate financial administrators. Economically they have suffered because of UN interference.
I strongly disagree with you. They people of East Timor have suffered because the Western powers and Western companies who did business under Suharto's brutal regime, and who continue to do business there today, are only interested in pillaging the region for its rich natural resources. No one in the boardrooms and the capitals of the West has ever been interested in the plight of the East Timorese. The failure of the efforts of the UN was not due to the fact that it was a body built on multilateral action. It failed for other reasons, notably the fact that the IMF and the World Bank were working for the economic interests other than the welfare of the East Timorese. In fact, multilateralism worked well in this situation, given that the 'cabal of Western pro-corporate financial administrators' orchestrated the continued exploitation of East Timor, and completely locked the people out of the decision process of how their resources should managed.
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