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Strengthening Friendship: People to People
Haforsa Relasaun Amizade: Husi Povo ba Povo
Maubisse, Timor-Leste
27 & 28 August 2010
The Australia Timor-Leste Friendship movement has committed itself to continuing the Friendship process for the next ten years. At the end of the first ten years of the Australia Timor-Leste Friendship movement, each of the Friendship groups attending the ‘Strengthening Friendship: People to People’ conference held in Maubisse over 27-28 August, recommitted themselves to a further ten years of Friendship with the people of Timor-Leste.
The Australian Friends of Timor-Leste at the conference also unanimously voted in favor of the Australia Timor-Leste Friendship Network (AusTimorFN) establishing a website in cooperation with State Administration to share information between Friends in Timor-Leste and Friends in Australia. The conference brought together more than 100 people from Friendship groups in Australia and Timor-Leste for what was Timor-Leste’s largest international conference outside Dili.
Addressing the conference, the President of Timor-Leste, HE Jose Ramos-Horta, highlighted the role played by the Friendship movement in underpinning relations between Timor-Leste and Australia. President Ramos-Horta said: ‘No country in the world has committed more than Australia to Timor-Leste.’
‘My hope,’ the President continued, ‘is for each suco in Timor-Leste to be adopted by a council in Australia. I want each school in Australia to adopt a school in Timor-Leste.’
Opening the conference, the Timor-Leste Minister for State Administration, Snr Archangelo Leite, said he warmly supported the Friendship movement and wanted to see it continue to develop and to progress. He said that governments come and go, but that friendship continued.
The Australian Ambassador to Timor-Leste, HE Peter Heyward, told the conference that the Friendship movement was a true symbol of the closeness of Australia and Timor-Leste. He said that the people to people relationships provided an underlying substance to more formal bilateral relations.
The conference addressed a number of themes, with the individual Friendship groups identifying the long-term commitment of both Australian and Timor-Leste friends to the movement as being their greatest strength, followed by the successes of their many local projects. Communication, including language, telephone, internet and sometimes road access, continued to be the biggest challenge to the movement. In his closing remarks, the Director of State Administration, Snr Abilio Caetano, referred to brothers and sisters coming together in love, peace and solidarity. He said that the challenges to the Friendship movement were in the process of being overcome.
The Convenor of AusTimorFN, Rae Kingsbury, offered her warm thanks to the participants to the conference, saying that the Friendship movement was owned by those people who comprised it.
Rae Kingsbury, Convenor Australia Timor-Leste Friendship Network (AusTimorFN)
Haforza Relasaun Amizade / Strengthening Friendship
Husi Povo ba Povo / People to People
Maubisse, 27-28 August 2010
The Timor-Leste Ministry of State Administration, in conjunction with Australia Timor-Leste Friendship Network, is inviting registration to attend the ‘Haforza Relasaun Amizade / Strengthening Friendship Workshop’ in Maubisse on the 27-28 August 2010.
The workshop follows the successful Australia and Timor-Leste Friendship Conference in Dili in July 2008 in which participants requested a bi-annual meeting. It will again provide Friends of Timor-Leste groups a face-to face opportunity to discuss with each other how we can continue and enhance good and productive friendship.
In particular, the workshop objectives build on the outcomes of the first conference and include:
- Consolidate the principles of the Australia Timor-Leste friendship groups
- Plan for future activities
- Improve coordination and communication
Accommodation booking processes will be assisted by the Ministry of State Administration and will be advised upon registration.
Please note that there will be a limited number of places available for participants for the day and a half workshop.
To register, please fill out your details in the form below and return it to nswaustimorfn@gmail.com.
Download the Registration Form.
It has been two years since the Friendship groups last met in Dili, and there is again a recognisable and definite need to meet this year.
Strengthening Friendship: People to People is a one-and-a-half day workshop to be run on August 27 and 28 this year at “Centro de Formacao Empresarial” in Maubisse, Timor-Leste. This workshop is part of the support that both Australian and Timorese Friends can all give to continuing and strengthening ‘Friendship’.
Click here to download a draft of the briefing paper about the event, prepared for Ambassador Abel Guterres. The briefing paper contains details about the aims and format of the workshop and advice for Australian and Timorese participants.
Please find attached the Invitation (Diary Note) to the Strengthening Friendship Workshop being organised for August 2010.
More information will be available and will be forwarded to you as soon as
practicable.Dear Friends in Australia and Timor-Leste ….
We are holding a workshop
August 27th and 28th 2010
Objectives
.:. Consolidation of Friendship Principles
.:. Action Planning
.:. Improving our co-ordination and communication
Dear Friends in Australia and Timor-Leste,
This is a reminder that we are holding a Strengthening Friendship Workshop on August 27th and 28th 2010.
Objectives:
- Consolidation of Friendship Principles
- Action Planning
- Improving our co-ordination and communication
Click here to download the Invitation.
More information will be made available as soon as practicable.