Government of Timor-Leste

Media Releases

• 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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• 31 of December of 2022Day-Off on January 2nd, 2023

  Day-off is granted on January 2nd, 2023

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• 29 of December of 2022Note of Condolence on the Death of Monsignor José António da Costa

  The Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste has received with great consternation and sorrow the news of the passing away of Monsignor José António da Costa, the Parish Priest of Dili's Cathedral and Vicar General of Dili's Archdiocese.

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• 28 of December of 2022Meeting of the Council of Ministers on December 28th, 2022

  Approved:
  
  1 - legal regime of classification and inventory of goods of cultural interest, as well as the rules applicable to its export and import;
  
  2 - first amendment to the legal regime of cultural heritage, was approved;
  
  3 - Regulation of the Military Medal and the Commemorative Medals of Defence and the F-FDTL;
  
  4 - Government's Legislative Plan for 2023; and
  
  5 - procurement procedure for the rehabilitation and maintenance of the Hatubuilico - Letefoho road.
  
  
  Analysed:
  
  1 - initiative to create Timor-Leste's public finance management reform strategy for 2022-2027; and
  
  2 - political-legislative options underlying the initiative to create a general regime for legal metrological control.

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• 24 of December of 2022Day off on December 26th, 2022

  Day-Off is granted on December 26th, 2022 (all day long)

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