{"id":315420,"date":"2025-10-26T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=315420"},"modified":"2025-10-26T17:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:04:20","slug":"timor-leste-becomes-aseans-11th-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=315420","title":{"rendered":"Timor-Leste Becomes ASEAN&#8217;s 11th Member"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Timor-Leste has been welcomed into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as the grouping&#8217;s 11th member, following an official ceremony at the 47th ASEAN Summit in the Malaysian capital, today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Timor-Leste&#8217;s President, Jose Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, were present at the signing of the Declaration on the Admission of Timor-Leste into ASEAN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Timor-Leste, located in the easternmost part of the Lesser Sunda Islands in Southeast Asia, applied for ASEAN membership in 2011. In Nov, 2022, ASEAN member states principally agreed to admit Timor-Leste as a new member of the regional grouping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 47th ASEAN Summit and related summits were hosted by the ASEAN 2025 chair, Malaysia, from today to Tuesday.&#8211; NNN-BERNAMA <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Timor-Leste has been welcomed into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as the grouping&#8217;s 11th member, following an official ceremony at the 47th ASEAN Summit in the Malaysian capital, today. Timor-Leste&#8217;s President, Jose Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, were present at the signing of the Declaration on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":315422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,318,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315420"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315421,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315420\/revisions\/315421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/315422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}