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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 United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET, Portuguese: Administração Transitória das Nações Unidas em Timor Leste), was a United Nations mission in East Timor that aimed to solve the decades-long East Timorese crisis in the area occupied by Indonesian military.
21st-century disestablishments in Timor-Leste (empty) Y. Years of the 21st century in East Timor (8 P) This page was last ...
Pages in category "Years of the 21st century in Timor-Leste" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
East Timor and Indonesia established diplomatic relations in 2002. Both share the island of Timor.Indonesia invaded the former Portuguese colony in 1975 and annexed East Timor in 1976, maintaining East Timor as its 27th province until a United Nations-sponsored referendum in 1999, in which the people of East Timor chose independence.
In September 2013, Timor-Leste launched a Mission Unit for the negotiation of a platform for cooperation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Australia. [3] In March 2016, representatives of all three countries met and discussed a "tourism path" between Bali and Darwin , which would lead through islands of Flores and Timor and bring an economic boost ...
Border negotiations have been conducted by Indonesia since 2001 with the UN-formed transitional government in East Timor (UNTAET), before being continued with the official government of Timor-Leste since 2002 through the Joint Border Committee (JBC). The initial result was the 2005 Interim Agreement, which established a land boundary between ...
Timor-Leste, [a] also known as East Timor, [b] officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor , the coastal exclave of Oecusse in the island's northwest, and the minor islands of Atauro and Jaco .