FOOTNOTES
- General Assembly resolution 3485 (XXX) of December 12, 1975 Security Council resolution 384 (1975) of 22 December 1975 and its resolution 389 (1976) of 22 April 1976 all repudiated the Indonesian action in the territory, while General Assembly resolution of December, 1976 “Rejects the claim that East Timor has been integrated into Indonesia inasmuch as the people of the Territory have not been able to exercise freely their right of self-determination and independence“.
- 1976 . The Fifth Conference of the Heads of State of the Non-Aligned Conference in Sri Lanka . August 1976 . included a resolution supporting the independence of East Timor in its Political Communique despite vigorous opposition by the Indonesian delegation led by Foreign Minister Malik.
- September 1974 . Indonesian News and Views September , Washington
- Hill , Helen . 1976 . The Timor Story 6 – 6 . Melbourne
- The Financial Times writer noted that the geology of Timor is regarded as highly prospective for oil or gas, but that the area has not been fully examined
- Sinar Harapan sought to explain it away by saying that Whitlam had remarked to his then assistant, now his Ambassador to Indonesia, Richard Woolcott, in Wonosobo that “this beautiful scenery reminds me of of northern Queensland”, hence the invitation to Townsville.
- Dunn , James . October 1975 . Portuguese Timor — the Independence Movement from Coalition to Conflict , October , Canberra : Legislative Research Service, Parliament of Australia . 8
- The Portuguese Consul was quoted in Sinar Harapan 1975 August 24 as saying “I have never said anything about the failure of this mission and I am not instructed by my Government to do so”.