International Relations
Ramos-Horta interview at Baku Forum: Dialgue is Dying
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.
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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.
The Road to ASEAN
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...
Ramos-Horta on BBC News: Timor-Leste to Join ASEAN
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...
The Diplomat: Timor-Leste Joins ASEAN
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...
Ex-world leaders call for ‘powerful shift’ as they warn of extreme inequality
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...
Straits Times: Timor-Leste to be granted full Asean membership in October
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...
President Ramos-Horta Addresses Zayed Human Fraternity Prize Summit
Abu Dhabi, February 3, 2025 The President and Nobel Peace Laureate J. Ramos-Horta, delivered a keynote speech today at the opening of the Zayed Prize for Human Fraternity Summit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The event, hosted by Judge Mohamed Abdelsalam,...
East Asia Forum: Timor-Leste hits the democratic reset button
In Timor-Leste, incumbent president Francisco ‘Lu-Olo’ Guterres and the Fretilin party were defeated in both the 2022 presidential and 2023 parliamentary elections, marking a return to the conventions established during the state's independence. The election results...
Pope Francis meets with President of Timor-Leste
Pope Francis met on Monday with East Timorese president José Manuel Ramos-Horta in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace. Following the papal audience, President Ramos-Horta met with Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the...
India PM Modi Pholds bilateral meeting with President of Timor-Leste
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the President of Timor-Leste in Gandhinagar on Jan 09. He held a bilateral meeting with José Ramos-Horta on the sidelines of 10th Vibrant Gujarat Summit. PM Modi will inaugurate the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2024 at Mahatma Mandir,...
Ramos-Horta: I never asked Kissinger to apologize for Indonesian invasion
Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta said Friday that he bore no anger towards Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. secretary of state who died this week and had helped greenlight Indonesia’s December 1975 invasion of the former Portuguese colony. But Virgílio da Silva...
Ramos-Horta at UN General Assembly, September, 2023
JOSÉ RAMOS-HORTA, President of Timor-Leste, spotlighting that his country is a young, imperfect and vibrant democracy, “an oasis of peace, tolerance and freedom”, said that, since its independence in 2002, the democracy is “alive and dynamic”. Noting that Timor-Leste...
Speech to Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity
1st June 2023 Speech By J. Ramos-Horta Nobel Peace Laureate President of Timor-Leste Your Excellencies Governor of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, The Hon. OH Young Hun, Excellencies, Distinguished, Esteemed Delegates I’m thankful for the kind invitation...
President Ramos-Horta Honored at Global Baku Forum
Gallery Text of Speech The 10th edition of the Global Baku Forum was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from Mach 9-12. The Forum brought together over 300 participants, including current and former heads of state and government, Nobel laureates, international organizations,...
PAPA DESTACA TIMOR-LESTE PELA ADOPÇÃO DO DOCUMENTO DA FRATERNIDADE HUMANA
"A religião é uma oportunidade efetiva de diálogo e encontro entre povos e culturas diferentes, como atesta a decisão do Parlamento de Timor-Leste que aprovou por unanimidade o Documento sobre a Fraternidade Humana, que assinei com o Grande Imã de Al-Azhar em 2019,...