Timor-Leste is a triumph of the human spirit. It is also proof that adversity can always be overcome and that, in the end, justice prevails. As a Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa, noted,
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“Everything is worthwhile when the soul is not small.”
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The Timorese …
It will doubtless be understood if, before beginning my statement, I express, as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, the particular satisfaction which I feel in seeing an illustrious fellow countryman, Professor Diogo Freitas do Amaral, an eminent public figure and a professor at my alma mater,…
It is with pleasure that I warmly congratulate Mr. Amara Essy on his election to the presidency of the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session. In his election I see a recognition of the role that Côte d’Ivoire, a friendly African country, has played on the international scene as well as an appr…
