Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao attends the ASEAN-Canada Summit in Jakarta, Sep. 3, 2023. Credit: Media Center of The ASEAN Summit 2023/M Agung Rajasa/pras/mifta The saga of Timor-Leste’s ...

Timor-Leste’s Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao greets Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim before the plenary session at the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 26, 2025 (pool photo by Mohd ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 — History was made today as Timor-Leste was officially welcomed as Asean’s 11th member, marking the culmination of years of effort and aspiration with the signing of the admission ...

At the 41st ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh in November 2022, the leaders of the grouping agreed ‘in principle’ to admit Timor-Leste as their 11th member. While Dili’s accession has been a long time coming ...

Timor-Leste has dismissed Myanmar’s reported objection to it becoming the 11th member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as “inconsequential and irrelevant.” Myanmar has formally ...

On February 13, Timor-Leste’s Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak met his Indonesian counterpart President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in the Indonesian satellite city of Bogor, home to one of the country’s many ...

On Friday, leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s member states provided a statement announcing “in-principle” support for Timor-Leste to be admitted as its 11th member. So ...

Since the 2022 ASEAN summits, when ASEAN members agreed ‘in principle’ to Timor-Leste’s admission and guaranteed its observer status, Timor-Leste’s entry into ASEAN is a real possibility. This was ...

Asia’s youngest country and Asean’s latest member might be small but it’s ready to get to work. We speak to president José Ramos-Horta to explore what’s next. At long last Timor-Leste has been ...

The 10 countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed “in principle” to admit Timor-Leste as its 11th member but this will depend on fact-finding missions, which are ...