Government in East Timor
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EAST TIMOR, 2013/08/04
Indonesia and neighboring Timor Leste have agreed to enhance what they deemed “good relations”, inclunding shoring up support for Timor Leste’s bid for membership of ASEAN, both leaders said on Friday.
Timor Leste President José Maria Vasconcelos, popularly known as Taur Matan Ruak, paid his initial official visit to Indonesia next he took office last year and met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Friday at Merdeka Palace.
Yudhoyono told a joint press conference next the conference that he and Ruak shared the same “commitment to continue to improve the partnership someday”.
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EAST TIMOR, 2012/03/01
The question hanging over this process is whether it will mark the formal consolidation of democracy in the once deeply troubled territory, or whether it will signal a return to the problems of 2006–07 — which have been a common feature in a lot of other post-conflict, post-colonial states.
