United Nations Mission of Support to East Timor
The United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor, short UNMISET (of English. United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor) is the successor mission of UNTAET with the aim to achieve political stability of the fledgling democracy in East Timor. For this purpose, the structure of administrative structures, the implementation of the legislation as well as maintenance of public security are provided. It is based on UN Resolution 1410 of 17 May 2002. Was on 14 May 2004 by Resolution 1543, the mandate extended for another year, which ended on 20 May 2005 with the transfer of power to President Xanana Gusmão. By 2006, about 90 civilian aid workers were mainly an advisory role in the United Nations Office in Timor- Leste ( UNOTIL ).
The Indian Kamalesh Sharma led the mission from May 2002 to May 2004. Then took over his former deputy, the Japanese Sukehiro Hasegawa. Military commanders were Lieutenant General Winai Phattiyakul (Thailand, May 2002-August 2002 ), Major General Huck Gim Tan ( Singapore, August 2002-August 2003 ) and Khairuddin Mat Yusof Lieutenant General (Malaysia, August 2003-May 2005 ).
The resolution 1410 allowed for a staff strength of 5,000 men military personnel, including 120 military observers, 1,250 civilian police, 455 foreign civilian personnel, 100 civilian experts from the support group, 241 UN volunteers and 977 local staff. Resolution 1543 called as the upper limit 477 man military personnel, including 125 men of an international intervention force and 42 liaison officers and 157 civilian police officers. In the 565 497 900 U.S. dollars expensive starting eleven UN soldiers, two military observers, two international and four local staff and two other people were killed.
Soldiers and policemen came from Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Denmark, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Ireland, Japan, Jordan, Canada, Kenya, Croatia, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Austria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Zambia, Samoa, Sweden, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Vanuatu, United Kingdom and United States of America.
Main criticism of the subsequent mission was that it served as logistical support of the remaining soldiers in the first place and less trying to the training of professionals who are urgently needed.