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By MARGARET RICE- Liverpool Leader- 5 Jul 10
EAST Timor president Jose Ramos-Horta finished his official visit to Australia with a civic reception in Liverpool on Sunday.
Mr Ramos-Horta had lived in Liverpool and his mother Helena still does, he said.
“I lived and worked here on numerous occasions, so I am coming back to a recent past,” he said.
“When my mother is in Dili she is always complaining about how much better Liverpool is,” he said.
“I say to her, ‘but in Liverpool you don’t have the pigs and dogs in the streets that we have here’,” he said, to laughter from the East Timorese audience who had crowded into Liverpool Council chambers for the event.
The intensity of the political dramas that played out during his week in Australia had not dented Mr Ramos-Horta’s sense of humour.
“Mr Rudd must have been upset with his meeting with me because the next day he resigned,” Mr Ramos-Horta said.
“Whenever I visit places, someone gets upset and resigns from office.
“A similar thing happened after I visited Japan,” he said, referring to his recent visit to former Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama.
“The third time it happened was when I was in Italy in 2006,” he said, referring to a meeting with Rome’s mayor, who resigned that afternoon.
Jokes aside, Mr Ramos-Horta thanked the people of Australia for their “exceptional warmth” towards the people of East Timor.
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By MARGARET RICE- Liverpool Leader- 5 Jul 10
EAST Timor president Jose Ramos-Horta finished his official visit to Australia with a civic reception in Liverpool on Sunday.
Mr Ramos-Horta had lived in Liverpool and his mother Helena still does, he said.
“I lived and worked here on numerous occasions, so I am coming back to a recent past,” he said.
“When my mother is in Dili she is always complaining about how much better Liverpool is,” he said.
“I say to her, ‘but in Liverpool you don’t have the pigs and dogs in the streets that we have here’,” he said, to laughter from the East Timorese audience who had crowded into Liverpool Council chambers for the event.
The intensity of the political dramas that played out during his week in Australia had not dented Mr Ramos-Horta’s sense of humour.
“Mr Rudd must have been upset with his meeting with me because the next day he resigned,” Mr Ramos-Horta said.
“Whenever I visit places, someone gets upset and resigns from office.
“A similar thing happened after I visited Japan,” he said, referring to his recent visit to former Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama.
“The third time it happened was when I was in Italy in 2006,” he said, referring to a meeting with Rome’s mayor, who resigned that afternoon.
Jokes aside, Mr Ramos-Horta thanked the people of Australia for their “exceptional warmth” towards the people of East Timor.
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