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UNHCR begins to return displaced people from East Timor

8 October 1999

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UNHCR objects to Indonesia's registration plans, demands more access to East Timorese in West Timor

6 October 1999

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UNHCR's Ogata warns against marginalization of humanitarian work by national governments, military

4 October 1999

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Indonesia agrees to repatriate East Timorese refugees from squalid camps in West Timor

3 October 1999

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Ogata urges speedy deployment of peacekeepers in East Timor, says UNHCR ready to launch a relief operation immediately

13 September 1999

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UNHCR voices concern over plight of East Timorese

6 September 1999

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Mexico tells Ogata it will join the 1951 Refugee Convention

30 July 1999

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New refugees pour across Central African borders

21 July 1999

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UNHCR calls for political initiatives to end refugee crises in Africa

13 July 1999

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Frederick Barton is named UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner

5 July 1999

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UNHCR begins organized repatriation of Kosovar refugees

28 June 1999

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UNHCR urges the world not to forget CIS and other troubled regions

24 June 1999

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High Commissioner Filippo Grandi during an interview on the border between Moldova and Ukraine