Women entrepreneurs who are creating jobs, transforming industries, and inspiring the next generation of business leaders across Timor-Leste will once again take the spotlight, as nominations open today for the Third Timor-Leste Women in Business Awards, held under...
PRESS STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT J. RAMOS-HORTA ON THE PASSING OF ACTIVIST JOHN M. MILLER It is with profound sadness that I learned of the passing of my dear friend, John M. Miller. John Miller was a lifelong human rights and solidarity activist from the...
President Ramos-Horta is interviewed by Azerbaijani non-profit the Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC), at the Baku Forum, on the responsibilities of the international computer in preventing and resolving wars, and recent failures in this role.
East Timor is set to hold presidential elections next year The president of East Timor, José Ramos-Horta, said today that he will consult Prime Minister Xanana Gusmãobefore deciding whether to run for re-election. Ramos-Horta stressed that any presidential candidate...
H.E. Jose Ramos-Horta, President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, delivered remarks at the XIII Global Baku Forum, held on 12-14 March 2026 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Organized by the Nizami Ganjavi International Center under the patronage of the President of...
Dili, East Timor – On the 50th anniversary of Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor, longtime independence advocate and now the country’s President Jose Ramos-Horta reflected on the last half-century of politics and diplomacy in his country. Ramos-Horta was...
On November 21, 2025, Pope Leo XIV received the President of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, Mr. José Manuel Ramos-Horta, in a private audience at the Vatican Apostolic Palace. Following his meeting with the Holy Father, President Ramos-Horta met with the...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The president of East Timor told The Associated Press on Monday that he would be willing to intercede personally to try and break the impasse in the region’s most challenging problem — Myanmar’s raging civil war, one day after his country...
Just over 20 years ago, Timor-Leste became the world’s newest nation. President Jose Ramos-Horta discusses the future of his country and more.
"I am the President of Timor-Leste. And I am prepared to take any consequences for my 'audacity.' This is not audacity at all, this is a cry of desperation."
A look at President Ramos-Horta's, and Timor-Leste's, road to ASEAN, as the nation prepares to step onto the ASEAN stage in October. The aspiration to join ASEAN as an independent member of the economic coalition of Southeast Asian states began in 1974, in a...
On 9 July, 2025, President José Ramos-Horta appeared on NNC World News to discuss Timor-Leste's ascendency to ASEAN. He addresses the objections raised on the side of the Kuala Lumpur summit by members of the military junta in Myanmar, due to Timor-Leste's recognition...
In October 2025, Timor-Leste will be officially admitted to ASEAN as its 11th member state. This will mark the realization of the long-standing aspiration for regional integration the young country has had since it won independence in 2002. For ASEAN, it represents...
40 former Heads of State and Government are calling for “a new economic coalition of the willing” to urgently tackle inequality and “remake our world in response” to “era-defining disruption”. In a joint letter, originated by the Club of Madrid and signed by President...
KUALA LUMPUR – Timor-Leste will become Asean’s 11th member state, with full membership to be granted at the next regional meeting in Kuala Lumpur later in 2025. Announcing this at a press conference on May 27, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim – whose...
March 8th, 2025 Dear Citizens of Timor-Leste and Friends Around the World, On this International Women’s Day, I extend my warmest greetings to all women and girls in Timor-Leste and across the globe as we unite under the international theme, “For ALL Women and Girls:...