II_UNTAET_Transitional_Government_of_East_Timor
II UNTAET Transitional Government of East Timor
UN / East Timorese cabinet led by Mari Alkatiri
The II UNTAET Transitional Government (Portuguese: II Governo Transitório UNTAET, Tetum: II Governu Tranzisaun UNTAET) was the second administration or cabinet of United Nations Administered East Timor, a United Nations protectorate that provided an interim civil administration and a peacekeeping mission in the territory of East Timor from 25 October 1999 until 20 May 2002.
On 19 September 2001, the UN Transitional Administrator, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, made a regulation on the establishment of the II UNTAET Transitional Government, which the regulation referred to officially as the "Council of Ministers".[1]
The following day, 20 September 2001, the Transitional Administrator swore in the members of the II UNTAET Transitional Government,[2] which was led by Chief Minister Mari Alkatiri,[2] and was replaced on 20 May 2002 by the I Constitutional Government of the independent East Timor.[3]