Canadian-East Timorese Relations

Canadian-East Timorese Relations

Canada	East Timor

The Canadian-East Timorese relations are amicable.

history

During the Indonesian occupation of East Timor , several support groups for East Timor were formed in Canada . The Canadian government did not recognize the annexation of East Timor by Indonesia, but largely tolerated it. In 1996 there was upset between Canada and Indonesia when Bella Galhos , an East Timorese resident in Canada, accused the Indonesian ambassador to Canada Benjamin Parwoto (1994–1997) of threatening her mother and telling her that her daughter should be quiet. The Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs therefore expected an explanation from Indonesia. Official representative of the Conselho Nacional de Resistência Timorensein Canada the student was Abé Barreto Soares .

When the United Nations dispatched the International Armed Forces to East Timor in 1999 to end the wave of violence in the country and to regulate the withdrawal of the Indonesians, Canada took part in it, as well as in UNTAET and its follow-up missions until 2012. Canada also supported East Timor in establishing the administrative and government structures. Both states are members of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).

diplomacy

Peter MacArthur at East Timor's Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak

Canada does not have an embassy in East Timor. Ambassador Peter MacArthur, who has been accredited to Dili on June 30, 2017 , is based in Jakarta, Indonesia .

East Timor has no official embassy; the East Timorese ambassador to the United States , based in Washington, DC, is responsible

In the run-up to the independence referendum in East Timor on August 30, 1999 , activists opened an unofficial message in a tent on the human rights monument on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on the anniversary of the annexation of East Timor by Indonesia . Bella Galhos was sworn in as "ambassador".

economy

In 2018, East Timor imported vehicle parts and accessories from Canada valued at $ 138,000 and instruments for medical or scientific use valued at $ 10,285 (2016: $ 2,637,000). In return, East Timor supplied Canada with 882 tons of coffee valued at $ 3,880,442, making Canada the second largest importer of East Timorese coffee and goods in general after the US . The re-exports to Canada were valued at 127,000 US dollars.

literature

• TS Hataley, Kim Richard Nossal: The Limits of the Human Security Agenda: The Case of Canada's Response to the Timor Crisis , Global Change, Peace & Security, Volume 16, Number 1, February 2004.

Web links

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

• Canadian Embassy for Indonesia and East Timor
• The Canadian Armed Forces in East Timor
• Canadian solidarity with East Timor: a history in images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b The} President of East Timor's Facebook page: Ambassadors of Indonesia and Canada Present Credentials , June 30, 2017 , accessed on July 2, 2017.
2. ^ ETAN: List of East Timor Support and Solidarity Groups Worldwide , accessed January 24, 2018.
3. ^ David Gillies: Between Principle and Practice: Human Rights in North-South Relations , 1996, ISBN 9780773514133 .
4. ↑ UPI: Canada wants Indonesia explanation over ex-pat , January 25, 1996 , accessed July 2, 2017.
5. ^ The Asia Pacific Journal: “Grandfather Crocodile is my inspiration: Abé Barreto Soares, poetry and nation-building in Timor-Leste , accessed August 4, 2018.
6. ↑ Far East and Australasia 2003 , ISBN 1-85743-133-2
7. ↑ Canadian Embassy for Indonesia and East Timor: Canada - Timor-Leste Relations , accessed July 2, 2017.
8. ^ Ministry of Justice of East Timor: Decreto do Presidente da República n.º 20/2014 de 25 de Junho , accessed on July 2, 2017.
9. ↑ CBC News: East Timor opens tent embassy in Ottawa , April 7, 1999 , accessed July 2, 2017.
10. ↑ Direcção-Geral de Estatística: External Trade Statistics Annual Reports 2018 , accessed on April 17, 2019.