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The development of a domestic security force in East Timor was a matter of fundamental importance to Australia s strategic interests, newly declassified documents released for the first time on Friday reveal.
Cabinet papers from 2000 outlined post-independence security scenarios in documents marked AUSTEO - for Australian Eyes Only - which were considered by the Howard government s national security committee in August of that year.
Cabinet papers from 2000 have been released by the National Archives of Australia.
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The passage of East Timor to independent statehood had formally begun a year earlier when the United Nations took over the territory s administration from Indonesia.