Timor-Leste ASEAN membership

Other countries can support Timor-Leste in the bureaucratic development needed to attend and contribute meaningfully to ASEAN’s numerous annual meetings.

For 11 years, ASEAN member states have advanced a number of rationales for delaying the admission of the region's youngest nation.

In less than a decade, Timor-Leste has gone from being a “pebble” in Indonesia’s shoe to a “good neighbor” of its former ruler.

A conversation with Kupa Lopes, Timor-Leste's ambassador to Cambodia.

Dili has been told that membership could happen next year.

The nation officially applied for full membership of ASEAN in 2011, but the rest of the bloc has yet to make a final decision.

If the nation is not admitted soon, it will fall further behind the 10 members of the Southeast Asian bloc.

If membership means sacrificing the country's values, perhaps it would be better to remain on the outside.

Abstention on the U.N. resolution is a “vote of shame,” says Nobel laureate.

8 years after its membership application, Timor-Leste remains stuck in limbo. That says more about ASEAN than about Dili.

The aspects of the ASEAN Charter dealing with rights and democracy have been largely ignored.