Gusmao urges Japan to push Indonesia to repatriate E. Timorese

DARWIN, Australia - East Timor independence leader Xanana Gusmao meet the press at a hotel in Darwin, Australia, from late Sept. 24 to early Sept. 25 and urges Japan to pressure Indonesia to allow some 200,000 displaced East Timorese to return home safely from West Timor and elsewhere in Indonesia.

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