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Habibie answers assembly's reservations, questions+

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian President B.J. Habibie (C) on Oct. 17 defends his decision to allow East Timor to determine its own future as he responded to questions about his Thursday accountability speech at the country's highest state body.Citing the country's 1945 Constitution, which proclaims that independence is the right of all the nations, Habibie told a plenary session of the 700-member People's Consultative Assembly that Indonesia occupied East Timor in 1975 to free it from Portuguese colonization.