“As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an innocent people from tyranny or genocide, I've never questioned the justification for resorting to force. That's why I… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms. — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education,… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population. — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are civilians, women… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
We do not have a budget support. We are now fully independent in terms of requirements, but we still have a need for development… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty. — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
It would be a mind-boggling endeavor to try to identify each individual who claims to have been a survivor of victimization during this period… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
The Commission has five commissioners from each side, plus three alternates, so all together sixteen members, people who are independent from the two governments,… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
