Timor-Leste Establishment of Diplomatic Relations With Belize

Wednesday, April 16, 2003

In New York, the Permanent Representative of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste to the United nations H.E. Mr. Jose Luis Guterres and Permanent Representative of the Democratic Republic of Belize, H.E. Mr. Stuart W. Leslie to the United Nations, signed a Joint Communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries at Ambassadorial level, on April 15, 2003.

The relations between the two States will be based on the principles of sovereign equality among States, mutual respect, self-determination, territorial integrity and non-interference in the internal affairs of each other.

The two countries are committed to developing and strengthening relations of friendship and cooperate