For East Timor president, ASEAN membership a lifelong dream
Published on: Friday 11 November 2022
It was as a budding diplomat in the 1970s that Jose Ramos-Horta, a man who would go on to win the Nobel prize for his fight for East Timor's independence, first raised the idea of his country joining Southeast Asia's economic and political bloc.
News source: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/east-timor-president-asean-membership-lifelong-dream-2022-11-12/
