Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (East Timor)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MFAC; Tetum: Ministeriu Negosiu Estranjeiru no Kooperasaun; Portuguese: Ministério Dos Negócios Estrangeiros E Cooperação Timor-Leste; Indonesian: Kementerian Luar Negeri dan Kerja Sama Timor Timur) is the foreign affairs ministry of East Timor. It was created in 2002, the year of its independence, and is responsible for designing, implementing, coordinating and evaluating policy in the areas of foreign policy and international cooperation.[1] Its headquarters, built with the assistance of Chinese funding, are located on Avenida Portugal in Dili.[2]

As of June 2020, Aurélio Sérgio Cristóvão Guterres is the Minister of Foreign Affairs.[1]

References
  1. "Structure". Government of East Timor. Retrieved 2019-12-13.
  2. Sahin, Selver B. (2014-08-01). "Timor-Leste's Foreign Policy: Securing State Identity in the Post-Independence Period". Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs. 33 (2): 3–25. doi:10.1177/186810341403300201. ISSN 1868-1034.
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