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"I think the honourable Member would think it sensible for us to have taken part in the World Bank assessment mission and to wait for our officials who have been taking part in that assessment mission to report before we actually come to the budgetary authorities and ask for specific amounts of money. But I have no doubt at all that we will be expected to be sizeable contributors to the reconstruction of East Timor, though I imagine the honourable Member would agree with me that others should be contributors as well and I imagine that the honourable Member would also think it sensible for us to try to draw on the lessons of reconstruction activities elsewhere, not least in Kosovo to ensure that the money we deploy in East Timor is spent as effectively and rapidly as possible.
I have to say that it gives me very great confidence that Sergio Vieira de Mello is to be the UN administrator in East Timor – he is somebody that I worked with very closely in my previous occupation in Hong Kong dealing with the refugee and illegal immigrant problem there. He is a man of outstanding qualities and we will all look forward to supporting him in the very important work he has to do.
I just add this to the honourable Member – there is also an obligation on us to give some assistance to the new government in Indonesia as it tries to make the transition from authoritarianism to democracy. There are appalling social and environmental problems there – I would like to be able to help as much as possible. Then I look at the size of our Asia programme which runs at around EUR 350 million per year and I scratch my head about how we are going to be able to provide the level of assistance required to what may well be one of the very largest and most important democracies in the world. So I think we have to do our bit – in fact more than our bit – in East Timor and that we must also help in Indonesia about which we look forward to putting forward a communication to the Council in the early months of next year."@en1
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