East Timor Joins ASEAN as 11th Member After 14-Year Campaign

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East Timor Joins ASEAN as 11th Member After 14-Year Campaign
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East Timor becomes a member of the Southeast Asian cooperation organization Asean, and thus becomes the organization's eleventh member after 14 years of campaigning.

The announcement is made in connection with the Asean summit being held these days in Malaysia.

Membership gives East Timor increased investment opportunities and access to a broader regional market.

The President of the USA, Donald Trump, is on his way to the Asean meeting, and states that a peace agreement between Thailand and Cambodia will be signed as soon as he lands in Malaysia.

It is one of several wars Trump claims to have ended.

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