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DILI, East Timor (AP) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta was sworn in as East Timor's new prime minister Monday, pledging to end the violence that has wracked Asia's newest nation and sent 150,000 people fleeing their homes.
He also criticized the United Nations, saying the world body left before the traumatized country was on its feet. The United Nations administered East Timor for two years after its bloody break from Indonesian rule in 1999.
"Is it possible to build a state in two years? The answer is no, but the Security Council had other concerns and priorities," Ramos-Horta said in his address. "And we, the Timorese, fueled by patriotism, even thought that a transition of two years was excessively long."
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