US supports Timor-Leste to join ASEAN

*Suara Timor-Lorosae, September 24, 2013 Language source: Tetun

The United States of America (USA) Government through its Embassy in Dili strongly supports Timor-Leste to become Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) member in the future. 

“we support Timor-Leste’s application to join ASEAN and we cooperate with the Government to assure that we provide the supports that needs to help Timor-Leste to become good candidate to join ASEAN, for instance, we provide an English expert to Public Service Academy in INAP to work on curriculum and help people in the Government learning English because English is important to ASEAN,” US Ambassador Judith Fergin said at her residence in Pantai Kelapa of Dili recently. 

She added when Timor-Leste joined ASEAN, Timor-Leste would get a lot of benefits from it such as low price in business and with ASEAN good reputation could give good reputation to Timor-Leste too politically and economically.