ASEAN agrees in principle to admit East Timor as 11th member

ASEAN agrees in principle to admit East Timor as 11th member

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Category : International Published on: November 15 2022

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  • The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has agreed in principle to admit East Timor as the group’s 11th member. 
  • The half-island nation, officially called Timor Leste, will also be granted observer status at high-level ASEAN meetings.
  • The country would be the first new member of the regional grouping in more than two decades, since Cambodia was admitted in 1999.
  • The East Timorese voted for independence from a brutal occupation by neighboring Indonesia in a 1999 UN-supervised referendum, and the country was officially recognized by the United Nations in 2002, making it Asia’s youngest democracy.
  • The resource-rich country of 1.3 million people immediately started the process of accession to ASEAN, but only formally applied for membership in 2011.
  • The year 2022 has been declared as the ASEAN-India Friendship year, as ASEAN and India commemorate 30 years of partnership.
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