RI-Timor Leste agree to complete border negotiation January 2008

Timor Leste`s foreign minister visited Jakarta early this week to talk about a number of topics with his Indonesian counterpart including those on PM Xanana`s planned visit, the RI-Timor Leste Commission for Truth and Friendship and border cooperation.

Timor Leste which was one an Indonesian province officially seceded from Indonesia in October, 1999, as a consequence of the pro-independence camp`s victory in the UN-organized popular consultation held on August 30, 1999.

The territory integrated into Indonesia in 1976 but the UN never recognized the integration process.