Ramos-Horta hits the deck running in Timor-Leste
Following the swearing-in ceremony of his Cabinet on Friday and a marathon meeting of the first Council of Ministers in which the Budget for the 2006/2007 financial year was approved, Timor-Leste’s Prime Minister Dr José Ramos-Horta has hit the deck running.
Dr Ramos-Horta said, “My Government is going to be a government for the poor and my Government will be at the forefront in the fight against poverty”. “We are going to use existing money to dignify the human being, give them hope, given them food, clothing and give them a roof.
“The private and entrepreneurial sector is an indispensable pillar in the development and well being of our country and I’ve been very encouraged by the response of international investors to my appointment as Prime Minister and their renewed confidence in Timor-Leste,” Dr Ramos-Horta said.
“I’m happy to discuss with them projects, ideas that will contribute to the development of our country and create jobs to the Timorese. We are going to find ways to offer incentives and enthuse them and facilitate their activities and foreign investors in this country can count on this Government to listen to them and to support them”.
Dr Ramos-Horta has held meetings with the representative of the Asian Development Bank, Timor-Leste’s Bank Payment Authority and later held an exhaustive meeting with members of a high-level delegation of the World Bank.
Timor-Leste’s Ambassador to Australia, HE Hernani Coelho Da Silva told The Mole over the weekend that while tourism was not right at the top of Timor-Leste’s economic sector agenda, it was third on the list after agriculture and oil and gas, the new Government was very keen to work to develop a sustainable and appropriate tourism industry.
Report by The Mole
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