Seven Days in East Timor by Tim Fischer (9781865082776)

Description - Seven Days in East Timor by Tim Fischer

On Friday 23 July 1999, just three days after stepping down from his post as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade, Tim Fischer MP received a phone call. The Foreign Minister was on the line. Would he lead Australia's official mission to observe the ballot which would determine East Timor's future?

Four and a half weeks later he was on a RAAF flight to Dili.

Seven Days in East Timor is Tim Fischer's story. In it he tells the reader what he saw, what he thought and what he felt as he led the All Party Australian delegation through one of the most tumultuous events in recent southeast Asian history. Violence, hope, deception, faith and a people's quiet determination to have their say whatever the cost; these are some of the ingredients of one man's personal account of the agony which accompanied the birth of an independent East Timor.

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