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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 19. maj 2005 / Time Line May 19, 2005
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East Timor peacekeeping mission ends
May 19, 2005 - 6:19PM
http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/East-Timor-peacekeeping-mission-endss/2005/05/19/1116361669065.html
The United Nations has marked the end of its peacekeeping
operations on East Timor, celebrating a mission credited with
bringing stability to the tiny country following its bloody break
with Indonesia in 1999.
But while the last peacekeepers are to head home, a scaled-down UN
presence will remain in the impoverished country for another
year...
05/19/2005
Scientists Warn on Space Weaponization
By NICK WADHAMS
Associated Press Writer
6:26 PM PDT, May 19, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-un-space-weapons,1,7111748,print.story?coll=sns-ap-science-headlines
UNITED NATIONS — A scientists' group on Thursday warned the
United States against weaponizing space, saying the move would be
prohibitively expensive and could set off a new arms race.
The Union of Concerned Scientists, a watchdog group that opposes
weapons in space, said the United Nations should consider drafting
a treaty that would prohibit interfering with unarmed satellites,
taking away any justification for putting weapons in space to
protect them.
"The United States has a huge lead in the space field -- it can
afford to try out the multilateral approach," said Jonathan Dean, a
former U.S. ambassador and an adviser on global security
issues...
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