Government of Timor-Leste

Media Releases

• 02 of March of 2024Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão's message for National Veterans Day, March 3rd, 2024

  I address all the comrades-in-arms before whom I bow, the veterans and fighters of the National Liberation, whom I respect immensely, all the older men and women, whom I call Living Heroes, and all our young people throughout Timor-Leste.

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• 01 of March of 2024Participation of Timor-Leste in the Signing Ceremony of the Accession Protocol to the WTO

  Timor-Leste, represented by the Vice Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Francisco Kalbuadi Lay, signed the protocol to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on February 26th, 2024.

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• 28 of February of 2024Meeting of the Council of Ministers on February 28th, 2024

  Approved:
  
  1 - Authorisation of expenditure from the Contingency Fund to organise activities in preparation for the visit of His Holiness Pope Francis to Timor-Leste (PM).
  
  2 - Authorisation of expenditure for an annual grant to the Timorese Episcopal Conference (VPM-MCAS).
  
  
  
  Analysed:
  
  
  1 - Presentation on the state of play of the implementation of the public contracts within the scope of Dili’s urban solid waste management project (MAE).

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• 21 of February of 2024Meeting of the Council of Ministers on February 21st, 2024

  Approved:
  
  1 - coordination mechanisms in the process of Timor-Leste's accession to ASEAN (MoFAC);
  
  2 - Recommendation for the purchase of 150,000 passport books and two passport printing machines;
  
  3 - Higher Education Framework Law (MHESC); and
  
  4 - Measures to Protect Urban Legality (MPW).
  
  
  Analysed:
  
  1 - progress in implementing the roadmap for Timor-Leste's accession as a full member of ASEAN.

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• 13 of February of 2024Meeting of the Council of Ministers on February 13th, 2024

  Approved
  
  1 - members of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Social Security;
  
  2 - Integrated Plan for Health;
  
  3 - full powers for the signing of the Protocol for Timor-Leste’s accession to the WTO; and
  
  4 - full powers for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Minister of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises of the Republic of Indonesia.
  
  
  Analysed:
  
  1 - state of play and political and legal options regarding the process of acquiring Timor Telecom;
  
  2 - submarine fibre optic cable that will connect Dili city to Darwin and Port Hedland; and
  
  3 - National Spatial Planning Policy.

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• 12 of February of 2024Government expresses condolences on the death of Harold Mitchell AC

  The Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste received with great sorrow the news of the passing of Australian businessperson and philanthropist Harold Mitchell AC on February 10th, at the age of 81.

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• 09 of February of 2024Day Off on February 14th for the celebration of “Ash Wednesday”

  Day-off is granted on February 14th, 2024, throughout the day.

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• 06 of February of 2024Meeting of the Council of Ministers on February 6th, 2024

  Approved:
  
  1 - Executive Director of the Archives and Museum of Timorese Resistance (AMRT), IP;
  
  2 - extraordinary system for awarding public contracts on works that have begun without contractual formalisation; and
  
  3 - Civil Society Support Office (GASC).

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