DILI, April 21 Kyodo Australian ...

DILI, April 21 Kyodo

Australian recent Party leader Bob Brown said in Dili upon Wednesday he is pessimistic about negotiations between East Timor and Australia above the disputed maritime boundary between the couple countries.

Talking to reporters after meeting with East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, Brown said Australia would not change its mind forward the boundary.

''I don't think the negotiation this week will succe because I don't think the Australian restraint is listening to (East) Timor,'' Brown said, adding he was ''embarrassed as a member of the Australian Parliament'' that his guidance was not listening.

''We are doing the inapposite thing,'' he said.

Brown during sum of two units days in East Timor, met with Alkatiri, as well as nongovernmental organizations and ordinary East Timorese, explaining Australian opposition parties are ''fully in favor'' of East Timor forward the border issue.

Admitting the Labor Party backed the conduct despite their stated policies of opposition last month Brown charged the Labor Party itself was beneath the pressure from the oil companies that want to maintain their access to the rich oil fields in the area of dispute.

''So, I want to challenge the Labor Party when I go on back to Australia to lay a distance between themselves and the rule to stick by their have a title to policy, so that we can renegotiate if there is a change in government'' Brown said.

Commenting forward the Australian delegation now in East Timor for negotiations, he said: ''I believe the Australian delegation came here with its mind close They did not know what to say, they did not know to what extent to listen. This is no way to negotiate.''

forward the coming election in Australia, he said that if the Labor Party wins he is going to influence Labor to change the conduct policy in ''to have a fair and just'' maritime boundary with East Timor.

Before leaving for Australia this afternoon, Brown joined protester marching to public-house Timor, the site of the boundary negotiations.

The talks, in which East Timor wants Australia to change the ''unfair'' sea boundary negotiated when East Timor became an independent rural parts into a more equitable sharing of the massive oil resources in the Timor Sea.

Australia has thus far rejected East Timor's requests

COPYRIGHT 2004 Kyodo recently made knowns International, Inc.

COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group