At its meeting of 14 July 1993 the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs having heard oral presentations on 30 June 1993 on the subject of East Timor from the Ambassador of Portugal and from the Director of the East Timor Ireland Solidarity Campaign:
* condemned the reports of continuing human rights abuses in East Timor;
* recalled the resolutions of the United Nations on East Timor which recognised, inter alia, the right of all peoples to self-determination in accordance with the principles of the UN Charter;
* considered that the Government should use all means open to it at the United Nations and through the European Community to seek to assist in the achievement of a comprehensive political settlement of the issue of East Timor on the basis of self-determination for the people of East Timor;
* considered that the Government should continue to raise Ireland's concerns about the human rights situation in East Timor both bilaterally with Indonesia and multilaterally through the European Community and at the UN;
* considered that the Indonesian Ambassador might be invited to meet the Committee;
* considered that a delegation from the Joint Committee should visit East Timor at an early date;
* decided that this resolution be transmitted to Foreign Affairs Committees in all EC countries and other countries as appropriate with a view to getting Community-wide support for international action.
The resolution was adopted unanimously in the Irish Parliament.