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Press Release
Meeting of the Council of Ministers on February 28th, 2024
The Council of Ministers met at the Government Palace in Dili and analysed the presentation by the Minister of State Administration, Tomás do Rosário Cabral, on the state of play of the implementation of public contracts within the scope of Dili‘s urban solid waste management project.
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The Council of Ministers decided to authorise the expenditure of up to US$ 12 million from the Contingency Fund for the High-Level Institutional Commission for the visit of His Holiness Pope Francis to organise activities in preparation for that visit.
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According to the draft presented by the Vice Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for Social Affairs, and Minister for Rural Development and Community Housing, Mariano Assanami Sabino, the Council of Ministers decided to authorise the expenditure of US$ 15 million for an annual grant to the Timorese Episcopal Conference (CET – acronym in Portuguese), to be implemented during 2024.
This annual grant to the Timorese Episcopal Conference is made under the agreement signed on August 14th, 2015, between Timor-Leste and the Holy See, and the Framework Agreement signed on June 16th, 2017, between the Government and the CET, which provides for an annual contribution, depending on the Government’s financial availability, to the social, educational and ecclesial governance activities of the Catholic Church. END