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Press Release
Extraordinary Meeting of the Council of Ministers of February 12, 2019
The Council of Ministers met at the Government Palace in Dili and reviewed the presentation on the cooperation program between the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste on strategic thinking for the future and for development planning. The purpose of the presentation was to support the Cabinet, Directors, and other agents of the State for future thinking, in order to create intervention strategies not only focused on current problems and challenges but based on the strategic vision of what is intended to be achieved for the country in the future. Thinking strategies in the development of a vision of the future are intended to help better understand the processes of change and to create deeper and more accurate changes for the future. This way, the identification and definition of investment priorities will help lay the foundations for a more prosperous and sustainable country. The presentation included speeches by Paolo Spantigati, ADB Director in Timor-Leste, and Susann Roth and Mei-Mei Song consultants of the ADB. After the presentations, a period of discussion followed, in which members of the Government together with the ADB technical team discussed the application of this methodology in Timor-Leste. ENDS