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4. Requests all Member States to respond urgently to meet fully the requirements of the United
Nations consolidated inter-agency appeal for the East Timor crises, which was launched on 27 October 1999;
5. Urges Member States to respond fully to meet the identified needs of the Transitional
Administration, including in such areas as the provision of civil and social services, institutions and capacity;
6. Welcomes the Joint Assessment Mission of the World Bank, United Nations agencies, the donor
community, the Asian Development Bank and the East Timorese to assess the immediate and long-term
rehabilitation, reconstruction and development needs of East Timor, within the United Nations arrangements
for East Timor and in close cooperation with immediate relief and rehabilitation efforts, and requests all
Member States to respond to meet the needs identified fully;
7. Welcomes also, in this regard, the convening of the Donors Meeting for East Timor in Tokyo on
16 and 17 December 1999;
8. Calls upon Member States, United Nations agencies, other international organizations and nongovernmental organizations to continue to collaborate to ensure the safe and unhindered access and provision
of humanitarian, rehabilitation and development assistance to all those in need in East Timor, including
internally displaced persons;
9. Calls upon Member States, United Nations agencies and other international organizations to
continue to collaborate, in full cooperation with the Indonesian Government, to ensure safe and unimpeded
access for humanitarian assistance to the East Timorese in western Timor and other parts of Indonesia,
including those who do not wish to return to East Timor, in accordance with national and international law;
10. Welcomes the assurances given by the Indonesian authorities regarding the activities of the Office
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and other humanitarian organizations, including the
security of the personnel of the Office of the High Commissioner, and assurances regarding free access to
all East Timorese in western Timor;
11. Calls upon Member States to ensure the voluntary, safe and unimpeded return of refugees and
displaced persons to East Timor, emphasizes the responsibility of States to ensure the civilian and
humanitarian character of refugee and displaced persons camps and settlements, and, in this regard,
welcomes the policy of the Indonesian Government to ensure that the East Timorese have the freedom to
exercise their right to return voluntarily, to remain in western Timor or to relocate within other parts of
Indonesia or other countries;
12. Welcomes, in this regard, the memorandum of technical understanding of 22 November 1999
establishing a joint border monitoring group to ensure safe conditions in the border area and to facilitate the
efficient and safe flow of returning East Timorese refugees;
13. Urges the United Nations to continue to address the humanitarian, rehabilitation and development
needs of East Timor;
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