East Timor eager to tap resources

News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Jun 2, 2006 9:19 PM EDT

Article Source: CNN

politics, australia, oil, asia, east-timor, timor-sea

One aspect of the January 2006 agreement between Australia and East Timor was that it puts on hold for 50 years the countries' competing claims over jurisdiction and maritime boundaries in the Timor Sea.
Those claims have been a sore point in relations between the two countries, with East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri unhappy at what he saw as Australia's aggressive negotiating approach.

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