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=** East Timor **=

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East Timor is located on the eastern part of Timor an island in the Indonesian archipelago that lies between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. East Timor's closest neighbor is Australia, which is 400 mi to the south. The government is REPUBLIC. Timor was first found/colonized by the Portuguese in 1520.\ The Dutch, who claimed many of the surrounding islands, took control of the western portion of the island in 1613. Portugal and the Netherlands fought over the island until an 1860 treaty divided Timor, granting Portugal the eastern half of the island as well as the western enclave []



**The militias killed approximately 1,400 Timorese and forcibly pushed 300,000 people into western Timor as refugees. On 30 August 1999, in a UN-supervised popular referendum, an overwhelming majority of the people of Timor-Leste voted for independence from Indonesia. On 20 September 1999 the Australian-led peacekeeping troops of the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) deployed to the country and brought the violence to an end. On 20 May 2002, Timor-Leste was internationally recognized as an independent state. Timor was first colonized by the Portuguese in 1520.East Timor was also the poorest country.**
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Seven years after independence, poverty is one of the biggest problems facing East Timor. Meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 is challenging. [|The World Bank] (PDF 456KB) predicts that youth unemployment is widespread and currently runs at 43 per cent nationally and 50 per cent in Dili. However,In 2002, when [|East Timor] gained its independence, guided by its National Development Plan (NDP), the government was fully committed to working with both the international community and civil societies to “reduce poverty in all sectors and regions of the nation, and; to promote economic growth that is equitable and sustainable, improving the health, education, and well being of everyone in East Timor” (see [|East Timor National Development] 2002 (PDF 1.27MB)).