East Timor to make formal request to join ASEAN next week: PM
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East Timor will sign a formal request to join the 10-member Association of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) next week, the tiny nation's new Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta said.
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East Timor was to issue arrest warrants for 18 suspects on Wednesday after assassination attempts on the prime minister and President Jose Ramos-Horta, who underwent further surgery on multiple gunshot wounds.
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Australia hoped to finalise negotiations with East Timor over oil and gas reserves by the end of the year, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said.
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East Timor appeared set Friday for a coalition government led by the independence leader Xanana Gusmao after the troubled nation&#39;s parliamentary election last week.
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East Timor's newly installed Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta has offered a weapons amnesty to prevent a repeat of communal clashes which left 21 dead and displaced 150,000 two months ago.
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Jose Ramos-Horta, the Nobel  Peace Prize winner who took over as East Timor's prime minister  last year, formally announced on Sunday he would run for the  presidency in April's election.
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East Timor's prime minister urged the Security Council Monday to extend the U.N. peacekeeping mission in his volatile country for one year, saying the next months will be critical as the Pacific nation prepares for its first national elections.
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Australia, Indonesia and East Timor should   aim to increase cooperation at upcoming three-country talks,   Jakarta's foreign minister said on Sunday, amid renewed   concerns about stability in the tiny fledging nation.
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The man widely tipped to be named this week as East Timor&#039;s new premier, Jose Ramos-Horta, has taken charge of a meeting of ministers to plot the tiny nation&#039;s route from crisis.
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Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a lightning visit to East Timor on Friday to pledge support after an assassination attempt on the country's president, Jose Ramos-Horta.
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East Timor's president urged Timorese to pray for Suharto, the former Indonesian president who ordered the brutal invasion of East Timor in 1975 and who now lies critically ill in hospital.
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East Timor&#39;s president and prime minister are to testify to the Indonesia-East Timor commission later in September over violence surrounding East Timor&#39;s 1999 independence vote.
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East Timor&#039;s prime minister said Monday he was ready to resign to help end weeks of unrest and political turmoil in the tiny nation.
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SINGAPORE : Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will make a two-day visit to Indonesia starting on Monday. He will also head to Thailand on Thursday for a two-day visit.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta was sworn in as East Timor&#039;s new prime minister Monday, pledging to end the violence that has wracked Asia&#039;s newest nation and sent 150,000 people fleeing their homes.
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Nobel prize-winner Jose Ramos-Horta has been named as East Timor&#039;s new prime minister, President Xanana Gusmao announced, ending weeks of political uncertainty in the nation.
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More international police will soon be sent to East Timor to restore order following recent deadly violence, an Australian minister said, as three local police officers gunned down last month were laid to rest.