THE EAST TIMOR PROBLEM AND THE ROLE OF EUROPE

           Edited by Pedro Pinto Leite
           Published by IPJET, Lisbon, September 1998
           Hardback, 304 pages
           ISBN 972-97911-0-4


Contents:

Introduction (Pedro Pinto Leite)
Message to the participants in the Conference (Mário Soares, former President of Portugal)

I - Keynote Speakers
    1- Mairead Maguire (1976 Nobel Peace Laureate, Northern Ireland)
    'East Timor - the Northern Ireland Connection'
    2- Noam Chomsky (Professor of Linguistics, M.I.T., USA)
    'The Great Powers and Human Rights: the Case of East Timor'
    3- Noam Chomsky
    'East Timor and World Order'

II - East Timor and International Criminal Law:
    4- James Dunn (Former Australian Consul in Dili)
    'Genocide in East Timor: the Attempt to Destroy a Society and its Culture'
    5- Roger Clark (Distinguished Professor of International Law, Rutgers Law School, USA)
    'East Timor and an International Criminal Court'

III - The ICJ Decision in the East Timor Case:
    6- Clive Symmons (Research Associate in Law, School of Law, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
    'The Role of Recognition in Instances of Denial of Self-Determination in the Light of the East Timor Case: Positive and Negative Duties of Third States in International Law?'
    7- Gerry Simpson (Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, Australian National University)
    'A Stone in Each Shoe: Australian Foreign Policy and East Timor'

IV - The annexation of East Timor revisited:
    8- Gustavo Gabriel Lopez (Lawyer, Argentina)
    'Argentina and the East Timor Issue'
    9- Akihisa Matsuno (Associate Professor at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
    'The Balibo Declaration: Between Text and Fact'
    10- Akihisa Matsuno
    'Reading the Unwritten: an Anatomy of Indonesian Discourse on East Timor'
    11- Clive Symmons (Research Associate, School of Law, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
    'The International Recognition Position regarding the Purported Incorporation of East Timor into Indonesia'

V - The role of Europe:
    12- José Ramos-Horta (1996 Nobel Peace Laureate, East Timor)
    'The East Timor Conflict, Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific and the Role of the West'
    13- Hans Goran Franck (Swedish Attorney, former MP)
    'A Flagrant Violation of International Law'

VI - The role of NGOs, of the Church and of the public opinion:
    14- Paulette Pierson-Mathy (Professor of International Law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles)
    'Reflections on the International Solidarity Movement with the People of East Timor'
    15- Felipe Briones Vives (Public Prosecutor, Secretary-General of the International Association of Jurists for the Western Sahara, Alicante, Spain)
    'Timor Este-Sahara Occidental: Gemelos Hacia la Paz?'
    16- Peter Carey (Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Oxford University, U.K.)
    'The Catholic Church, Religious Conflict and the Nationalist Movement in East Timor, 1975-97'
    17- Nico Schulte Nordholt (Senior Lecturer at the University of Twente, Netherlands)
    'The Role of the European Intellectual Community in a Peaceful Solution to the East Timor Problem'
    18- Angie Zelter (Seeds of Hope; East Timor Ploughshares)
    'The Role of Direct Action in Upholding International Law'

Statement of the International Jurists Conference on East Timor