Timor-Leste

As of July 2006, 164 nations accounting for 61.6 percent of the world s carbon dioxide emissions had ratified or accepted the treaty. About 30 (mostly small) nations have never taken a position on the treaty. These nations include Afghanistan, Andorra, Angola, Brunei, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Gabon, Iraq, Saint Kitts and Nevis, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Turkey, Zimbabwe, Republic of China (Taiwan), and Vatican City. Only two nations have signed but declined to ratify the treaty, Australia and the United States. 

Equatorial Guinea, Holy See, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Namibia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Timor-Leste and Tuvalu. 

The Board notes that the Democratic People s Republic of Korea and Liechtenstein have joined the community of States parties to the 1988 Convention. The Board calls on Equatorial Guinea, the Holy See, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Namibia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Timor-Leste and Tuvalu to become States parties to that important international treaty and thus ensure its universal application. 

Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and Indonesia in Timor Leste. 

UNMIK in Kosovo and UNTAET in Timor Leste (1999-2002), UNITAF in Somalia (1992-1993). 

Government of Timor-Leste, Brief History of Timor-Leste. Available at http // timor-leste.gov.tl/ p=29 lang=en (accessed Apr. 7, 2012). 

BBC News World Edition (2002) East Timor Birth of a Nation. Available at http //news.bbc.co.Uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1996673.stm (accessed Apr. 7, 2012) see also UN News Centre (2002) Timor-Leste UN Admits Newest Member State. Available at www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp infocusID=27 (accessed Apr. 7, 2012) (declaring East Timor the first new country of the millennium). 

Teny-Dhurgon, Riek Machar, South Sudan A History of Political Domination A Case of Self-Determination, University of Pennsylvania-African Studies Center, available at www.africa.upenn.edu/Hornet/sd machar.html Timor-Leste UN Admits Newest Member State, UN NEWS CEN TRE, Sept. 27, 2002, www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp infocusID=27 Trebicka, Viola, Lessons from the Kosovo Status Talks On Humanitarian Intervention and Self-Determination, 32 Yale J. Int l L., 255, 256-258 (2007)... 

UNOTIL United Nations Office in Timor Leste... 

Timor-Leste experienced massive internal and cross-border displacement between 1999 and 2010. In 2010, it was announced that there were no more IDPs in the country, though the true sustainabilily of returns remains unclear (IDMC... 

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