BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN – Timor Leste’s foreign minister said Brunei has “given assurance” it will support the country’s bid to join ASEAN, which the tiny nation hopes will happen sooner rather than later.
“I am very pleased to have Brunei by our side, they are very supportive and yesterday I got the assurance directly from His Majesty the Sultan,” Dionisio Babo Soares told The Scoop in an interview Thursday.
“So I think that it’s now time for Timor Leste to join ASEAN, so that is the message to the rest of the ASEAN countries.”
Soares is on a diplomatic swing to all 10 ASEAN member st
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