Q&A: East Timor’s President Ramos-Horta on diplomacy, Gaza, and the West | Politics News
Dili, East Timor – On the 50th anniversary of Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor, longtime independence advocate and now the country’s President Jose Ramos-Horta reflected on the last half-century of politics and diplomacy in his country.Ramos-Horta was serving as the foreign minister of the newly declared Democratic Republic of East Timor in the days leading up to Indonesia’s invasion in December 1975.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listFormed by the independence party Fretilin after colonial Portugal’s withdrawal…