Both Indonesia, Timor Leste have responsibility for rights violations

He said what had happened in Timor Leste in September 1999 must be accepted with responsibility where both governments must expressed regret to their peoples.

Juwono added that besides the principles, the CTF finding must also be responded to with an attitude that both sides would not look into the past too long in their attempt to find truth and justice.

"So, there should be no words of apology but an expression of deep regret which is to be conveyed by both presidents to their respective peoples," he said.

He said that both governments were also determined to maintain such a principle and to incorporate it with the formulation of the CTF report which President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and President Ramos Horta would receive in Bali on Tuesday (July 15).

Juwono said that both governments had no intention to question or take the human rights violations in East Timor to the United Nations or to other courts overseas.

He said that ...