May 21, 2004

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Happy birthday to East Timor, which turned 2 yesterday. Australia's left you a nice present. You see it turns out Australia's diplomats are busy people:

At the heart of the dispute are billions of dollars worth of royalties from oil and gas reserves, which lie in the waters between Australia and East Timor, known as the Timor Sea...Australia has said it is only able to meet East Timor twice a year, but East Timor wants monthly meetings in a bid to accelerate maritime border talks that began last month in the East Timor capital Dili.
It is OK for Australia to give them aid; but give them their fair share of oil and gas deposits in the Timor Sea is another thing altogether.

posted by Simon on 05.21.04 at 11:30 AM in the




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