Belgian-East Timorese relations

Belgian-East Timorese relations

Belgium	East Timor

The Belgian-East Timorese relations describe the intergovernmental relationship between Belgium and East Timor .

history

With SOS Timor there was a non-governmental organization in Belgium that campaigned for the independence of East Timor from Indonesia . As early as the 1990s, the Conselho Nacional de Resistência Timorense (CNRT) had representatives from the European Union in Brussels .

In 2016 the government of East Timor Belgium expressed its condolences on the occasion of the terrorist attacks in Brussels on March 22, 2016 .

diplomacy

Belgian Ambassador Stéphane de Loecker and East Timor’s President Francisco Guterres (2019)

Belgium is represented in Dili by its ambassador in Jakarta . Ambassador Patrick Hermann was replaced by Stéphane de Loecker , who handed over his accreditation on February 28, 2019.

The East Timorese ambassador for Belgium is based in Brussels. On October 15th, the new embassy building in Etterbeek was inaugurated by Foreign Minister José Luís Guterres . In addition to other European countries, the ambassador is also accredited as a permanent representative of East Timor to the European Union .

See also : List of East Timorese ambassadors in Belgium

Entry requirements

Citizens of East Timor are exempt from the visa requirement for the Schengen states . Belgian citizens also enjoy visa-free travel in East Timor.

There are currently around 18 East Timorese citizens living in Belgium.

economy

For 2018, the East Timorese Statistical Office registered imports from Belgium to the value of 1,020,000 US dollars (2016: 277,000 US dollars), making Belgium 22nd among the East Timorese importers. The re-exports to and from Belgium were valued at US $ 29,000 (2016: US $ 20,000). In 2016, East Timor still exported coffee worth 2,430,000 US dollars to Belgium (fourth place among the target countries). In 2018, the East Timorese statistical office recorded no exports to Belgium.

Web links

Commons : Belgian-East Timorese Relations  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Belgian Embassy in Jakarta

Individual evidence

1. ^ ETAN: List of East Timor Support and Solidarity Groups Worldwide , accessed January 24, 2018.
2. ↑ New Straits Times: A LONG ROAD: From freedom fighter to priesthood candidate to envoy, Jose Antonio Amorim Dias' curriculum vitae is unusual , February 17, 2013 , accessed July 7, 2016.
3. ^ Government of East Timor: Government stands in solidarity with Belgium , March 23, 2016 , accessed on January 28, 2018.
4. ↑ Federal Public Service for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation: Addresses of Belgian Embassies and Consulates abroad , accessed on January 28, 2018.
5. ^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of East Timor, February 28, 2019
6. ^ Government of East Timor: Inauguration of the new building for the Embassy of Timor-Leste in Brussels , October 20, 2014 , accessed on January 28, 2018.
7. ^ Government of East Timor: Embaixadas de Timor-Leste , accessed on July 6, 2016.
8. ↑ Introduced with Regulation (EU) No. 509/2014 (PDF) of May 15, 2014, which came into force on June 9 , 2014.
9. ↑ Permanent Mission of East Timor to the European Union: About the Embassy , accessed on March 13, 2018.
10. ↑ Direcção-Geral de Estatística: External Trade Statistics Annual Reports 2016 ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 10, 2018. 
11. ↑ Direcção-Geral de Estatística: External Trade Statistics Annual Reports 2018 , accessed on April 17, 2019.