DEPUTY East Timor PM Jose Luis Guterres yesterday indicated his country would be unable to accept Australia’s plan to build an asylum-seeker processing centre there.

THE “regional solution” to asylum-seekers proposed by Julia Gillard has sparked a political debate throughout the region, including New Zealand.

Opposition Leader Phil Goff yesterday questioned the value of establishing a processing centre in East Timor. “Why we should load this problem on to them; I just can’t understand,” he said. Mr Goff said that East Timor was already dealing with the problem of 100,000 internally displaced people.

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