Proponent: Antonio M. Nieva
Executive Committee
Representing Asia/Oceania
The International Organization of Journalists, in amplification of the objectives set forth in Chapter III, provisions 4, 10 and 12, resolves the following:
1. Declares its solidarity with the suffering people of East Timor in their struggle for self-determination;
2. Expresses its deep concern over the occupation of East Timor by another aggressor country in violation of all international laws, and the continuing repression of the East Timorese people, their rights and their freedom;
3. Calls on the occupying forces to allow journalists free access to information in East Timor;
4. Appeals to the United Nations to utilize all the resources at its command to compel the withdrawal of the occupation force and set the holding of a national referendum under its supervision to enable the East Timorese to determine their own political future.
Paris, April 28, 1993.