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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 January 2025. Country in Southeast Asia For the former Indonesian province, see East Timor (province). A request that this article title be changed to Timor-Leste is under discussion. Please do not move this article until the discussion is closed. Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste República ...
East Timor officially regained independence on 20 May 2002 after three years under the United Nations Interim Administration for East Timor (UNTAET). [1] From East Timor's perspective, this was the re-establishment of national independence, following the proclamation of independence from Portugal on November 28, 1975, and the Indonesian ...
It later changed its name to Frente Revolucionária de Timor-Leste Independente (Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor or Fretilin). Fretilin was regarded by many in Australia and Indonesia as being Marxist, its name sounding reminiscent of FRELIMO in Mozambique. The party committed itself to "the universal doctrines of socialism".
(Reuters) -East Timor's independence was a gift to the world because it showed conflict could be resolved through negotiation, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday, the ...
An independence referendum was held in East Timor on 30 August 1999, organised by United Nations Mission in East Timor.The referendum's origins lay with the request made by the President of Indonesia, B. J. Habibie, to the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 27 January 1999, for the United Nations to hold a referendum, whereby East Timor would be given choice of either greater ...
The Constituent Assembly completed work on a draft constitution and this was promulgated in March 2002, [8] the Assembly would serve as the parliament of East Timor following independence. Presidential elections were held in April in which Xanana Gusmão was elected president of a future independent East Timor.
Indonesian rule over the territory, recognised only by Australia, [11] lasted until 1999, when an independence referendum was held and the territory transitioned to the control of the International Force East Timor. East Timor became an independent country on 20 May 2002. [1] [4]
Gusmao, 76, an icon of the country’s independence struggle from Indonesian occu. East Timor’s opposition party won Sunday’s parliamentary election, meaning independence fighter Xanana Gusmao ...