Ramos-Horta won't seek UN human rights role
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![Dr Ramos Horta says it would be an unfair burden on East Timor if he took on the UN job. [Reuters]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/base/etimor_horta_rtr_140208.jpg "Dr Ramos Horta says it would be an unfair burden on East Timor if he took on the UN job. [Reuters]")
Dr Ramos Horta says it would be an unfair burden on East Timor if he took on the UN job. [Reuters]
East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta has indicated he will stay on in his current post, and won't seek to stand for a top United Nations human rights job.
After taking advice from political and church leaders, Dr Ramos Horta says it would be an unfair burden on East Timor if he were to take on the job of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights when the post becomes vacant later this month.
At a press conference in Dili, he said leaving his presidential role a little over a year into his current five-year term would result in early elections.
Sending East Timorese voters to the polls for a third time in two years was unfair, he said, and could give rise to new tensions.
