Government of Timor-Leste

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• 25 of January of 2023Meeting of the Council of Ministers on January 25th, 2023

  Presidency of the Council of Ministers
  Eighth Constitutional Government
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  Meeting of the Council of Ministers on January 25th, 2023
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• 20 of January of 2023Day-Off on January 23rd 2023 on the Occasion of the Chinese New Year Celebration

  Day-off is granted on January 23rd, 2023, throughout the day.

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• 18 of January of 2023Meeting of the Council of Ministers on January 18th, 2023

  Approved:
  
  1 - Second Amendment to the organic law of the Ministry of Health;
  
  2 - first amendment to ANAPMA; and
  
  3 - Agreement with the Government of Australia for a direct financial contribution to support community resilience and economic recovery in Timor-Leste during the global pandemic of COVID-19 - Phase 3.
  
  
  Analysed:
  
  1 - Political-legislative options underlying the establishment of the System of Units of Legal Measures;
  
  2 - Presentation on the ongoing recruitment process of volunteer teachers; and
  
  3 - Presentation on the ongoing preparations for the 2023 Parliamentary Elections.

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• 16 of January of 2023National holidays in 2023

  The public holidays with a fixed date and variable date for 2023, determined by the Law n.10/2005 of 10th of August

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• 16 of January of 2023Note of Condolence on the death of Shirley Shackleton

  The Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste has received with great consternation and sorrow the news of the passing away of Shirley Shackleton, widow of journalist Greg Shackleton, one of the journalists known as the Balibo Five, killed by Indonesian forces in Balibo, on October 16th, 1975.

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• 11 of January of 2023Meeting of the Council of Ministers on January 11th, 2023

  Approved:
  
  1 - first amendment to the Statute of the National Institute of Science and Technology (INCT- Portuguese Acronym);
  
  2 - first amendment to the Legal Regime of Legal Deposit of Publications in Timor-Leste;
  
  3 - regularization of rent payments relative to the lease of the State property referred to in the Special Investment Agreement approved by Government Resolution no. 22/2010, of April 14th;
  
  4 - establishment of the National Procurement Commission (CNA-Portuguese Acronym), I.P., which approves its statutes;
  
  5 - Execution of the 2023 General State Budget; and
  
  6 - fifth amendment to the Electoral Law for the National Parliament.
  
  
  Analysed:
  
  1 - political-legislative options underlying the establishment of the new Highway Code; and
  
  2 - political-legislative options underlying the establishment of the legal regime for the commercialization of breast milk substitutes.

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• 10 of January of 2023The government of Timor-Leste condemns the attack on Brazilian democratic institutions

  The 8th Constitutional Government expresses its support to the President of the Republic of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was freely and democratically elected by the Brazilian people and strongly condemns the violence and the attack on democratic institutions.

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• 02 of January of 2023Timor -Leste mourns the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

  The Government of Timor-Leste was deeply saddened to receive the news of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's passing away yesterday, December 31st, 2022, at the age of 95, in the Vatican.

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