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THE EVOLUTION OF PEACE
OPERATIONS MANDATES

BUILDING A CPC

IN TIMOR-LESTE

Building a close protection capa- after TL was invaded and occupied guages are Tetúm and Portuguese.
city in Timor-Leste. The MMA-T by the Indonesian military. In 1999, To support the successful act of
process implemented by the Por- after nearly 24 years of maubere self-determination the United Na-
tuguese Guarda Nacional Repu- resistance and with the support of tions (UN) launch the United Na-
blicana (GNR) the international community, In- tions Transitional Administration
donesia was forced to accept an in East Timor (UNTAET), providing
independence referendum and to an interim civil administration and
By João Duque Martinho relinquish control of the territory. a peacekeeping mission in the
TL became the fi rst new sovereign territory of TL, from its establish-
state of the 21st century on 20 May ment on 25 October 1999, until
The context of a succes- 2002. The country is composed by its independence on 20 May 2002.
sful capacity building project the eastern part and the Oe-Cusse It´s in this context that Portugal de-
Timor-Leste (TL) was a former Por- enclave of the island of Timor, the ployed a new UN police capacity.
tuguese colony until 28 Novem- island of Ataúro, in the north of Dili The fi rst UN Police (UNPOL) For-
ber 1975, when the Revolutionary (capital) and the islet of Jaco, in med Police Units (FPUs) were crea-
Front for an Independent East the eastern tip of the territory. The ted by the UN Department for Pe-
Timor (Fretilin) declared the ter- country’s population is around 1.3 acekeeping Operations (DPKO) in
ritory’s independence. Few days million (2017) and the offi cial lan- 1999, when the UN assumed full

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