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ASEAN Will Finally Accept Timor-Leste as the Bloc's 11th Member

After 20 years of courting ASEAN, it is finally happening.

Leaders of Southeast Asia’s most prominent bloc have accepted “in principle” Timor-Leste’s 20-year application to the ASEAN. After more than 20 years since it gained independence and applied to be ASEAN’s 11th member state, Timor-Leste, formerly East Timor, finally got the nod of ...