Timor-Leste commences maritime boundary talks with Indonesia.

Timor-Leste initiates Compulsory Conciliation with Australia under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

H.E. Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, Chief Negotiator meets United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York following the initiation of compulsory conciliation under UNCLOS.

Timor-Leste and Australia appoint two conciliators each, to form the Conciliation Commission for the Compulsory Conciliation proceedings.

The four party-appointed conciliators jointly appoint a fifth member of the Conciliation Commission, who is also Chair of the Commission.

First Compulsory Conciliation procedural meeting is held at The Hague, the Netherlands.

Timor-Leste makes its case publicly before the Conciliation Commission in a 90-minute presentation, webcast live from the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s website. Timor-Leste launches landmark Policy Paper on Maritime Boundaries in Dili, Timor-Leste and simultaneously in the Peace Palace, The Hague.

Australia challenges the competence of the Conciliation Commission.

The Conciliation Commission unanimously decides that it does have competence to hear the dispute.

Timor-Leste and Australia agree to an integrated package of measures to create the conditions for the achievement of an agreement on permanent maritime boundaries.

Timor-Leste notifies Australia of its wish to terminate the 2006 Treaty on Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea (CMATS), a provisional resource-sharing treaty.

Timor-Leste and Australia hold a series of confidential meetings with the Conciliation Commission in Singapore.

Timor-Leste withdraws from two arbitration cases against Australia related to taxation jurisdiction and alleged espionage during the negotiation of the CMATS treaty.

Timor-Leste and Australia hold a series of confidential meetings with the Conciliation Commission in Washington D.C., USA.

The CMATS Treaty ceases to be in force.

Timor-Leste and Australia continued participating in the meetings with the Conciliation Commission to find a solution to the maritime boundary dispute in the Timor Sea.

Timor-Leste and Australia hold a series of confidential meetings with the Conciliation Commission in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Timor-Leste and Australia continued participating in the meetings with the Conciliation Commission to find a solution to the maritime boundary dispute in the Timor Sea. On 30 August 2017, Timor-Leste and Australia reached agreement in principle on a comprehensive maritime boundary agreement.

Timor-Leste and Australia reached agreement on the complete text of a draft treaty as anticipated in the Comprehensive Package Agreement of 30 August 2017.

Timor-Leste and Australia signed an historic Maritime Boundary Treaty at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Timor-Leste launched ‘New Frontiers: Timor-Leste’s Historic Conciliation on Maritime Boundaries in the Timor Sea’.

The National Parliament ratified the historic Maritime Boundary Treaty and approved the 4 proposed laws: Amendment of Tax Laws, Labour and Migration Law, Amendment of Petroleum Activities Law, and Amendment of Petroleum Fund Law.

The Prime Ministers of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and Australia, Taur Matan Ruak and Scott Morrison, respectively, formalised the entry into force of the Maritime Boundary Treaty in the Timor Sea with a symbolic exchange of diplomatic notes. This ceremony took place at the Government Palace in Dili. The..Read More