Speaking at the Concorde Club meeting on Monday (Feb 24), Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan said that Timor-Leste is on track to become a full member of Asean by the regional bloc's second summit in October or November this year.
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00:00Malaysia as the leader of ASEAN this year, we have decided during the meeting or retreat
00:27of the new ASEAN foreign ministers in Langkawi to speed up the process of including Timor-Leste as a permanent member in ASEAN.
00:40And we have agreed and established a special unit at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta to help Timor-Leste
00:51to speed up the process of including Timor-Leste as a permanent member in ASEAN.
00:58Timor-Leste has a lot of instruments that need to be approved by Timor-Leste.
01:05There are 88 instruments, most of which are from the economic sector.
01:14Of those 88, 69 are from the economic sector.
01:20So, we have asked, I have asked, for the economic sector, the economic authorities in Jakarta
01:27to review whether the instruments that need to be approved are still needed or still in use or not.
01:41It turns out that many of the instruments that need to be approved by Timor-Leste 69 are no longer relevant.
01:52So, we are reviewing this so that we just remove those instruments as not needed by Timor-Leste.
02:03So, God willing, and even though we have a basic agreement,
02:08even if Timor-Leste cannot approve all the instruments in the near future,
02:16we want to give them what is called approval within 30% first
02:23and give them time after they become ASEAN permanent members,
02:28give them 3-4 years or 5 years to slowly, step by step,
02:35approve and approve the instruments that need to be approved.
02:40So, this is what we are doing.
02:42And if we can do this, we can see that there is a high possibility that Timor-Leste
02:50can be made or can be included as ASEAN permanent members
02:55during the second summit in November or October this year.