How Healthy is the Ocean’s Constitution? 25 Years of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Conference (17 – 18 October 2019, Hamburg, Germany)

In celebrating the 25th Anniversary of UNCLOS, Chief Negotiator, H.E. Xanana Gusmão was invited to deliver a keynote address at the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg, Germany on 17 October 2019. The conference was the time for leading experts, policy makers and practitioners to reflect on what UNCLOS had […]

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Cosgrove / Xanana Cup – Friendly Soccer Shield (20 September 2019, National Stadium, Dili)

In a demonstration of the friendship between Timor-Leste and the INTERFET staff, on September 20, the veterans of FALINTIL and INTERFET and the national teams of the F-FDTL and the Australian Defence Force played a friendly soccer match vying for the Cosgrove / Xanana Cup. Hundreds of visiting veterans joined a crowd of almost 1,000 […]

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Organising Committee for the Celebrations of the 20th Anniversary of the Referendum (Popular Consultation) and the INTERFET Mission (July – September 2019, Timor-Leste)

The Government created an Organising Committee [OC] to organise the 20th Anniversary of the Popular Consultation (August 30) and the deployment of the INTERFET Mission (September 20). H. E. Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão was appointed as President of the OC. The OC included a Principal Advisor, Counsellors [6], a General Coordinator and Vice-Coordinators [6], the […]

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Visit by a United States Congressional Delegation and welcome dinner hosted by the Chief Negotiator (28 July 2019, Dili, Timor-Leste)

On 28 July 2019, the Chief Negotiator and President of the Organising Committee for the Celebrations of the 20th Anniversary of the Referendum, Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, hosted a welcome dinner to the United States Congressional Delegation visiting Timor-Leste. This is the second visit by United States Members of Congress to Timor-Leste, after the first […]

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Ratification of the Maritime Boundary Treaty by the National Parliament (23 July 2019, National Parliament, Dili)

Chief Negotiator, Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, the Minister of State and of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Ágio Pereira, and the Acting Minister of Finance, Sara Brites, together with the negotiation team, presented to Parliament’s Commissions B, C, and D, the Maritime Boundary Treaty and the four relevant bills: Amendment to the Tax […]

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