Clarification regarding the press release of the 1st march 2018

Presidency of the Council of Ministers

Seventh Constitutional Government

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Dili, 2nd  March  2018

Press Release

Clarification regarding the Press Release of the 1st March 2018

In regards to the Press Release dated 1st March 2018, entitled “Signing of the Agreement between Timor-Leste and Australia, in New York”, we hereby clarify that, after contacting the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste’s Permanent Mission at the United Nations, in New York, the Government of Australia did not have the intention to make itself represented by its Prime-Minister, Malcom Turnbull, at the signing ceremony of the agreement of delimitation of maritime borders between Timor-Leste and Australia, but by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop. ENDS

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