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| Subject: Made in OZschwitz: East Timor Gulag Thu Jul 08, 2010 3:33 am | |
| DILI, East Timor — East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao said Thursday his government was open to discussing Australia's proposal to process Australia-bound asylum seekers in the impoverished nation.
New Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Tuesday she had initial support from President Jose Ramos-Horta for the detention centre, in a pre-election bid to stem an influx of undocumented migrant boat arrivals.
Opposition to the plan has grown in East Timor, with Deputy Prime Minister Jose Luis Guterres saying the aid-dependent country is not ready or willing to house refugees, but Gusmao sounded a more positive note.
"We are open-minded and open for discussion in participation to solve the problem," he told reporters.
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| Subject: Incompetent apparatchik Gillard eats her words over refugees Fri Jul 09, 2010 7:29 pm | |
| Incompetent apparatchik Gillard eats her words over refugees
Julia Gillard has retreated from a plan to establish a refugee processing centre in East Timor after receiving a frosty response from Dili.
As the East Timorese Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, said he wanted a detailed proposal before even considering the idea, Ms Gillard claimed she had never nominated East Timor as a specific location.
Instead, the Prime Minister said the location for her proposed regional processing centre ''would have to emerge from the work with our regional neighbours''.
''I am not going to leave undisturbed the impression I made an announcement about a specific location,'' she told the Brisbane radio station 4BC yesterday.
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