Uniting East Timor 'harder than buildign it: PM

Uniting crisis-torn East Timor is more challenging now than the task of building it from the ruins of its bloody separation from Indonesia in 1999, Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta said today.

Ramos-Horta, who is running for president in an election to be held on April 9, said the job of governing one of the world’s newest and poorest countries over the next five years will be tougher than the last because of a security crisis that could worsen as up to 500,000 voters go to the polls.