After a marathon all day and all night session in New York the UN Security Council has just voted to approve the
deployment of UN Peacekeepers in East Timor.
No details of the resolution are yet available. Scoop will bring more news as it comes to hand.
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the
media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.