21.6.06

Alkatiri de saída

East Timor's prime minister will likely resign, his spokesman said Wednesday, as the president and members of the beleaguered leader's own party demanded he step down for his handling of tensions that flared into bloody street battles.

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President Xanana Gusmao wrote a letter to Alkatiri urging him to resign after an advisory body of senior ministers, known as the Council of State, met for several hours Wednesday to try to find a solution to the crisis.