Finnish-East Timorese Relations

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Finnish-East Timorese Relations
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The Finnish-East Timorese relations describe the interstate relationship between Finland and East Timor .

history

With the East Timor Group of Committee of 100 there was a non-governmental organization in Finland that campaigned for the independence of East Timor from Indonesia . In the 1990s, East Timorese independence activists peacefully occupied the Finnish embassy in Jakarta .

Finland recognized East Timor on the day the Southeast Asian country was granted independence on May 20, 2002. Diplomatic relations were established on June 20.

In June 2010, East Timor's Finance Minister Emília Pires visited Finland at the invitation of the Finnish Foreign Minister. She took part in a symposium on “coherent development cooperation”. Pires took the opportunity to thank the government and the people of Finland for their continued support and friendship with East Timor on issues such as human rights, poverty reduction and especially the disabled.

diplomacy

Ambassador Jari Sinkari presenting his accreditation to President Francisco Guterres (2019)

East Timor does not have a diplomatic mission in Finland. The East Timorese ambassador in Brussels is responsible .

Finland does not have a diplomatic mission in East Timor. The embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, is responsible.

Development Assistance

East Timor’s State Secretary for the Environment Demétrio do Amaral de Carvalho and the Finnish Environment Minister Krista Mikkonen in Rome (2019)

There is a cooperation agreement between Finland and East Timor for the development of civil society in East Timor and the fight against poverty. The agreement includes the areas of human rights and democracy development, increasing economic exchange and reducing poverty, preventing environmental threats, supporting gender equality and the disabled and strengthening cultural identity. Since 2005, this has also included the expansion of relations between Finland and East Timor and contact between the people of both countries. At least 50% of the projects are located outside of East Timor's capital, Dili , in order to develop rural areas as well.

The Finnish Local Cooperation Fund (LCF) also supports local organizations in small projects for cultural and social activities.

The second building of the media company Suara Timor Lorosa'e Corporation in 2007 was financed by Finland and is therefore called Uuistallo News House . 46 other organizations received aid from Finland in East Timor: Timor Aid & Liberta, Khadalak Media Group, Max Sthall, Forum Komunikasi, Yayasan HAK, UNTAET & Yayasan HAK, Tour to Finland, the municipality of Manufahi , Truth, Fokupers, Centro Feto Oecusse, the Salesian Sisters, Lao Hamutuk, Katilosa, CNIC, Cegeptil, Haburas, LCF Program, Labor Advocacy, CDEP, ETWE, Sahe Institute, TIDS, INL, JSMP, PDF Foundation, Vecom, Vertude, Toha, Halarae, Biahula, Klibur, EPTA, Mitra , Latara'an, Mauroma, Liona, Externato São José , Roman Luan Foundation, AFB-LDA Group, Labeh Foundation, Haveni Foundation, Don Bosco Community, Peace-Justice, Provedor Office and Rede Feto. Finland worked closely with Aurélio Sérgio Cristóvão Guterres on the distribution.

economy

Central Eléctrica de Betano

The Finnish company Wärtsilä supplied the generators for the three most important electricity companies in East Timor. Wärtsilä also operates the Hera power plant , the Central Eléctrica de Betano and the Inur-Sacato power plant with the Electricidade de Timor-Leste (EDTL) under a five-year contract (2017-2022) .

In 2018, the East Timor’s Statistical Office recorded imports of medical or scientific instruments from Finland worth US $ 1,036.

Entry requirements

Citizens of East Timor are exempt from the visa requirement for the Schengen states .

Web links

Commons : Finnish-East Timorese Relations  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ETAN: List of East Timor Support and Solidarity Groups Worldwide , accessed January 24, 2018.
  2. ↑ Dr Clinton Fernandes: If My Aunty Had Balls, She'd Be My Uncle: Dubious Counter-Factuals in East Timorese History , UNSW Canberra , accessed July 13, 2012.
  3. ↑ Dan Nicholson: The Lorikeet Warriors: East Timorese new generation nationalist resistance, 1989-99 , Department of History, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne, October 2001, accessed March 19, 2015.
  4. ↑ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland: Timor-Leste ( Memento of the original from January 16, 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 15, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / formin.finland.fi
  5. ↑ Government of East Timor: Ministra das Finanças participa em Simpósio de Alto Nível, na Finlândia , accessed on January 15, 2018.
  6. ↑ a b c Finnish Embassy in Indonesia: Development cooperation Timor-Leste (Democratic Republic of East Timor) , accessed on January 15, 2018.
  7. ^ STL: Profile , July 2012 , accessed on July 4, 2017.
  8. ↑ Suara Timor Lorosae: Aurélio Sergio Cristovão Guterres , September 21, 2017 , accessed April 8, 2019.
  9. ↑ Diario Nacional, August 25, 2011, Independence is nothing if people still living in darkness: Gusmao
  10. ↑ Macauhub: East Timor has electricity across almost its entire territory, August 22, 2013 , accessed August 22, 2013.
  11. ↑ Macau Hub: New power plant starts operating in Timor-Leste enclave , November 24, 2015 , accessed November 25, 2015.
  12. ↑ PennEnergy: Wärtsilä to optimize power plant performance in Timor-Leste , accessed on January 28, 2016.
  13. ↑ Timor-Leste thermal power stations managed and maintained by Finnish group , October 12, 2017 , accessed January 15, 2018.
  14. ↑ Direcção-Geral de Estatística: External Trade Statistics Annual Reports 2018 , accessed on April 17, 2019.
  15. ↑ Introduced with Regulation (EU) No. 509/2014 (PDF) of May 15, 2014, which came into force on June 9 , 2014.
  16. ↑ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland: Timor-Leste: travel documents to Finland , accessed on January 15, 2018.