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n 25 July, the Special Repre- is a gradual process, taking place dis-
sentative of the Secretary- trict by district, and later unit by unit,
General of the United Na- only after joint assessments conduct-
tions for Timor-Leste (SRSG) Atul ed by the UNMIT and the Govern-
Khare and Prime Minister Kay Rala ment. These joint assessments are » UNMIT Photo/Martine Perret
Xanana Gusmão presided over the conducted applying mutually agreed PNTL officers at the resumption ceremony in Manatuto.
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ital vaccines must be kept cold at at all. sponsored Mother and Child Health
all times if they are to maintain Programme. “We should be able to
their full potency. For this reason, “This is part of UNICEF’s support to reduce the mortality rate for these target
health clinics need reliable refrigerators. the MoH’s National Immunization groups.”
However it is an almost impossible task Programme and restoration of the UNICEF has been supporting the
to maintain refrigerators in most of the immunization structure and cold chain Government-managed Expanded
country where electricity is scarce and er- system,” said UNICEF Health Specialist Yin Programme on Immunization since 2002.
ratic. In the enclave of Oecussi, the abun- Yin Aung. “The goal is to reach at least 80 To improve the lives of children and
dance of sun has inspired a solar solution per cent immunization coverage of all women, UNICEF provides technical and
to this electricity problem. Led by the children under one with DTP-Hepatitis B, financial assistance to the MoH.
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to plant additional trees in Dili District.
NMIT is one of 11 UN missions par- especially for people in our village,” said Worldwide, more than 4 billion trees have
ticipating in the United Nations village leader Adelino de Araujo from so far been planted keeping UNEP on
Environment Programme (UNEP) Ainaro District. “The trees will protect us. track to reach its 7 billion target by the
Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Cam- They will give shade to people and help end of 2009.
paign. Led by Community Police officers avoid erosion.”
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law. The officers were also training on
ommunity members gathered
how to negotiate with uncooperative and
last week in front of the Viqueque
possibly violent perpetrators, how to stop
District Administration office to
and detain car thieves or looters and how
witness a ceremony to mark the comple-
to use handcuffs.
tion of task force training of PNTL officers
by UN Police. Twenty-five PNTL officers
from Viqueque District took part in the Viqueque District PNTL Commander
two-week training. During the ceremony, Justino Menezes explained that the
officers demonstrated their skills in using objective of the training was to improve
tactics as well as how they applied force the capacity of the task force, and to
in an appropriate manner – without using strengthen the ability of the task force to
excess force - if required to manage mass serve and protect all community members.
disturbances. The Viqueque District Administrator
Francisco da Silva was very pleased with
One of the main aims of the training was the training and said that it would serve
to show task force officers how to use force the district well ahead of upcoming village » UNMIT Photo/Jamie dos Ries
as a last resort, to use it in a proportional and municipal elections. PNTL officers getting task force training.