The Indonesian Foreign Ministry said that it is contacting the Indonesian Embassy in Dili to seek confirmed information on the security situation in Timor-Leste following the shooting by rebel soldiers of President Ramos-Horta in a pre-dawn attack on Monday.
"We are still contacting the embassy there to ask for confirmation on the security situation in Timor-Leste," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Kristiarto Soeryo Legowo said here.
Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta was shot in the stomach during a pre-dawn attack on his Dili home by rebel soldiers.
Stability was immediately restored in Timor-Leste after the pre-dawn attacks that wounded President Ramos Horta, said Timor-Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, who escaped a separate attack at his residence.
The situation has returned to normal and the country is under control, Gusmao said at a press conference in the capital of Dili Monday morning. Meanwhile, Timor-Leste Foreign Minister Zacarias da Costa said that the president is in stable condition.
The president, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle for East Timor's independence from Indonesia, has been operated byan Australian military medical team in Dili.
Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado was killed in the assault and an East Timor soldier was also seriously wounded, military spokesman Domingos da Camara said earlier.
The Asia's youngest nation has been struggling to claw its way back to stability after plunging into chaos in 2006 when the army tore apart on regional lines.
The factional bloodshed two years ago killed 37 people and drove 150,000 from their homes, with foreign troops needed to restore order between warring neighborhoods
Source: Xinhua
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