Brazilian-East Timorese Relations

Brazilian-East Timorese Relations

Brazil	East Timor

The states of Brazil and East Timor maintain friendly relations .

history

The presidents José Ramos-Horta and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2008)

East Timor's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão and Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in Brasília (2011)

Brazil and East Timor are both former colonies of Portugal and members of the Community of Portuguese- Speaking Countries (CPLP).

While Brazil became independent in the 19th century, East Timor remained Portuguese until 1975 and only became independent after 24 years of occupation by Indonesia (1975–1999) and three years of UN administration (1999–2002). On the Independence Day of East Timor on May 20, 2002, the two countries established diplomatic relations.

The Brazilian non-governmental organizations Clamor por Timor and Grupo Solidário campaigned for East Timor during the Indonesian occupation .

Brazil supported East Timor on its way to independence, for example by participating in the various UN missions in East Timor, such as INTERFET , UNTAET and UNMISET . For East Timorese independence referendum, 1999 on August 30, Brazil sent five liaison officers, six police monitors and 19 electoral observers. On the sidelines of the 54th General Assembly of the United Nations in September 1999, Brazil's Foreign Minister Luiz Felipe Lampreia met with the East Timorese representative José Ramos-Horta and the Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Atalas .

East Timor's President Xanana Gusmão was the first East Timorese head of state to visit Brazil in July and August 2002. José Ramos-Horta, now Foreign Minister, followed again as President in 2004 and 2008. Other East Timorese officials in Brazil in 2009 were Justice Minister Lúcia Lobato and Parliament President Fernando de Araújo . In 2010, Social Affairs Minister Maria Domingas Alves followed at the 10th Conference of CPLP Labor and Social Affairs Ministers and State Secretary for Defense Júlio Tomás Pinto for the meeting of the CPLP Defense Ministers. Xanana Gusmão returned to Brazil as Prime Minister in 2011 and was the first foreign head of government to be received by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff . Even Education Minister João Câncio Freitas was in 2011 in Brazil. In 2012, President Ramos-Horta attended the Rio + 20 conference . Marçal Avelino Ximenes , Deputy Minister of Education , came to Brazil on a working visit in 2013. Deputy Foreign Minister Constâncio Pinto attended the second inauguration of President Dilma Rousseff in 2015 as a representative of East Timor.

In January 2001, before East Timor was released into independence, Fernando Henrique Cardoso was the first Brazilian president to travel to East Timor. Foreign Minister Celso Amorim followed in 2007 . Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was a guest in East Timor in 2008. Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota met his East Timorese counterpart José Luís Guterres in 2013 on the sidelines of a forum in Vienna . Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira came to the 20th meeting of the CPLP Council of Ministers in 2015 in East Timor, where he met Foreign Minister Hernâni Coelho at a bilateral meeting .

collaboration

Brazilian soldiers before their flight to East Timor as part of UNMISET (2004)

Brazil supports East Timor in the areas of culture, justice, technical cooperation and defense. In addition, the South American country helped the Southeast Asian country to build state structures, for example in the judiciary, in the security sector and in vocational training.

Brazil has been providing assistance to East Timor in the field of education since 2000. Since 2004, Brazilian teachers in East Timor have been teaching Portuguese , which was established as the official language of East Timor alongside Tetum in 2002 , but was hardly spoken by the population during the restoration of independence due to the long Indonesian occupation. In 2002 the basic agreement between the two countries on cooperation in education was signed. In July 2012, the Becora vocational training center was handed over to East Timor.

In July 2000, the Brazilian Technical Cooperation Mission began work in Dili. In 2002, the basic agreement on technical cooperation between the two countries followed.

In September 2003 a letter of intent was signed between the justice ministries of the two states. In 2005, two state defense lawyers and a judge from Brazil were sent to East Timor for assistance.

In May 2008, the CPLP countries signed a military alliance agreement. Among other things, East Timorese soldiers are to be trained in Brazil. In 2011, another agreement on military cooperation was signed between Brazil and East Timor.

diplomacy

The Ministers of Culture Ana de Hollanda and João Câncio Freitas in Brasília (2011)

East Timor supports Brazil in reforming the United Nations Security Council .

In June 2000, Brazil opened its representation in Dili, which in May 2002 became the embassy. Kywal de Oliveira became the first ambassador in 2003 .

See also : List of Brazilian Ambassadors in East Timor

Domingos Francisco de Sousa became the first East Timorese ambassador to Brazil in 2009 and thus the first East Timorese ambassador to South America and the second to Latin America after Cuba .

See also : List of East Timorese Ambassadors in Brazil

economy

In 2018, goods worth USD 12,855,000 (2016: USD 10,182,000) came from Brazil to East Timor. This puts Brazil in 7th place (2016: 10th place) among the trading partners of East Timor. There were also re-exports from East Timor to Brazil amounting to 26,000 US dollars (15th place).

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil: República Democrática de Timor-Leste , accessed on March 30, 2016.
2. ^ ETAN: List of East Timor Support and Solidarity Groups Worldwide , accessed January 24, 2018.
3. ^ Herald Sun: East Timor signs military pact. May 18, 2008.
4. ↑ Kywal de Oliveira: MSF 301 de 2002 [1] cv
5. ↑ 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. 
6. ↑ Direcção-Geral de Estatística: External Trade Statistics Annual Reports 2018 , accessed on April 17, 2019.