# II UNTAET Transitional Government of East Timor

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".
The following day, 20 September 2001, the Transitional Administrator swore in the members of the II UNTAET Transitional Government, which was led by Chief Minister Mari Alkatiri, and was replaced on 20 May 2002 by the I Constitutional Government of the independent East Timor.

## Composition

The government was made up of the following Ministers, Vice Ministers and Secretaries of State, and others, as follows:

### Ministers

| Party | Minister | Portfolio |
| Fretilin | Mari Alkatiri | Chief Minister and Minister of Economy and Development |
| Independent | José Ramos-Horta | Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation |
| Fretilin | Ana Maria Pessoa | Minister of Justice |
| Independent | Fernanda Mesquita Borges | Minister of Finance (to 23 April 2002) |
| Fretilin | Antoninho Bianco [de] | Minister of Internal Administration |
| Independent | Rui Maria de Araújo | Minister of Health |
| Fretilin | César Vital Moreira [de] | Minister of Water and Public Works |
| Fretilin | Ovídio de Jesus Amaral [de] | Minister of Transport and Communications |
| Independent | Armindo Maia | Minister of Education, Culture and Youth |
| Fretilin | Estanislau Aleixo da Silva | Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries |
| Fretilin | Maria Madalena Brites Boavida | Minister of Finance (from 30 April 2002) |

### Vice Ministers

| Party | Vice Minister | Portfolio |
| PD | Fernando de Araújo | Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation |
| Fretilin | Jorge Teme | Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation |
| Fretilin | Domingos Maria Sarmento [de] | Vice-Minister of Justice |
| Fretilin | Arlindo Rangel da Cruz [de] | Vice-Minister of Finance |
| Fretilin | Ilda Maria da Conceição | Vice-Minister of Internal Administration |
| PD | João Soares Martins [de] | Vice-Minister of Health |
| Fretilin | Roque Félix Rodrigues | Vice-Minister of Education, Culture and Youth |

### Secretaries of State

| Party | Secretary of State | Portfolio |
| Fretilin | Arsenio Paixão Bano | Secretary of State for Labour and Solidarity |
| Fretilin | Gregório de Sousa | Secretary of State for the Council of Ministers |
| Fretilin | Egídio de Jesus [de] | Secretary of State for Natural and Mineral Resources |
| Fretilin | Roque Félix Rodrigues | Secretary of State for Defence (from 30 April 2022) |

### Others

| Party | Office holder | Portfolio |
| Independent | Mariano José Lopes da Cruz | Inspector-General of the Transitional Government |
| Independent | Emília Pires | Secretary of the Commission on Planning of the Transitional Government |
| UDT | Isabel da Costa Ferreira | Advisor on Human Rights |
| Independent | Maria Domingas Fernandes Alves | Advisor on the Promotion of Equality |
| UDT | António da Conceição | Advisor on the Development of the Commission on Planning |