The interview was recorded in New York, New York on February 16, 1998. The Interviewer was James S. Sutterlin. Dennis McNamara is the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General for East Timor. Mr. McNamara previously served as a Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo, heading the mission’s Humanitarian Pillar, an area for which the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had the lead responsibility. In UNHCR he was Director of the Division of International Protection from 1994 to 1999. He has also served as Director of the Human Rights Component of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC); as the Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Humanitarian Assistance for Kampuchea based in Bangkok; as UNHCR Regional Legal Adviser in Hong Kong; and as UNHCR Deputy Regional Representative in Malaysia.