Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said Monday the government has no plans yet to evacuate its citizens from Timor-Leste after President Ramos-Horta was shot and wounded in the stomach in an early morning attack.
"There are no evacuation plans because the situation is under control. There are no signs that it will worsen," he was quoted by the national Antara news agency as saying.
"There is also no need to increase protection for the some 3,000 Indonesians in Timor-Leste because they are not affected by the incident," he noted.
Hassan also said that Indonesia had no plans to send security forces because troops from Australia and New Zealand were already there as well as the U.N. police.
Timor-Leste was under Jakarta occupation from 1976 until the 1999 U.N.-sponsored ballots won by pro-independence people. Occupying the eastern half of Timor island, Timor-Leste became an independent country in May 2002.
Source: Xinhua
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