Green MP Flies To East Timor
01 February 2000
Green MP Flies To East Timor
Green
MP Keith Locke left this morning with seven other MPs on
a
delegation
to East Timor led by the Minister of
Defence, Mark Burton.
The delegation will be visiting New
Zealand's peacekeeping force in East
Timor.
"I'll be
investigating what reconstruction aid the East Timorese
need,
and
how New Zealand could best assist," said Mr
Locke.
Before the visit, Mr Locke met with Volunteer
Service Abroad, Oxfam, the
Community Housing Trust (which
had developed a cheap, quality housing
construction
system), and East Timorese representatives in New Zealand.
"Along with Amnesty International, I am concerned that
the perpetrators
of
destruction and killings in East
Timor are brought to justice. I want to
look at progress
in the investigations of human rights violations,
and
what
the international community can do to help,"
said Mr Locke.
Mr Locke can be reached in Darwin
(Tuesday), East Timor (Wednesday and
Thursday) and
Australia
(Friday).