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East Timor applies to SE Asian regional group

/ 10:38 AM March 05, 2011

JAKARTA, Indonesia—East Timor has applied for a membership in the Association of Southeast Asia Nations.

Its application was submitted Friday by East Timor’s foreign minister.

Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa accepted the application on behalf of the association. He said he will soon convene a meeting to study the application, since Indonesia is the group’s current chairman.

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He added that “East Timor’s future will be very much linked to the future of the Southeast Asia region.”

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The group includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

East Timor voted to secede from Indonesia in 1999.

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