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Mark Dodd - The Australian - November 18, 2010
AUSTRALIA has appointed Miles Armitage, a senior career officer in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, as the new ambassador to East Timor.
Details of the appointment were confirmed yesterday by Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd.
Mr Armitage who has served overseas in Manila, the UN and Islamabad, is fluent in Portugese and Tetum - East Timor's national language.
He is expected to take up his job next February, replacing Peter Hayward who has been ambassador in Dili since January 2008.
One of the most pressing assignments for Mr Armitage after he arrives in Dili will likely be to secure an agreement for Julia Gillard's proposed asylum seeker detention centre.
Australia is at the forefront of international support for East Timor with budgeted aid for 2010-11 running at $69 million.
"In 2009, the governments of East Timor and Australia agreed on a new country aid strategy which focuses Australian assistance on regional areas and sectors where help is most urgently needed: primary health, education, employment, infrastructure, government accountability and policing.
"At the request of the East Timorese Government, Australia leads the International Stabilisation Force which supports the role of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste in maintaining security," Mr Rudd said.
However, East Timor, a country of just over a million people, is one of the world's poorest nations, ranking 162 out of 182 countries in the Human Development Index (United Nations Development Program).
Life expectancy is 60.2 years, and the adult literacy rate is just 50.1 per cent.
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Mark Dodd - The Australian - November 18, 2010
AUSTRALIA has appointed Miles Armitage, a senior career officer in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, as the new ambassador to East Timor.
Details of the appointment were confirmed yesterday by Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd.
Mr Armitage who has served overseas in Manila, the UN and Islamabad, is fluent in Portugese and Tetum - East Timor's national language.
He is expected to take up his job next February, replacing Peter Hayward who has been ambassador in Dili since January 2008.
One of the most pressing assignments for Mr Armitage after he arrives in Dili will likely be to secure an agreement for Julia Gillard's proposed asylum seeker detention centre.
Australia is at the forefront of international support for East Timor with budgeted aid for 2010-11 running at $69 million.
"In 2009, the governments of East Timor and Australia agreed on a new country aid strategy which focuses Australian assistance on regional areas and sectors where help is most urgently needed: primary health, education, employment, infrastructure, government accountability and policing.
"At the request of the East Timorese Government, Australia leads the International Stabilisation Force which supports the role of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste in maintaining security," Mr Rudd said.
However, East Timor, a country of just over a million people, is one of the world's poorest nations, ranking 162 out of 182 countries in the Human Development Index (United Nations Development Program).
Life expectancy is 60.2 years, and the adult literacy rate is just 50.1 per cent.
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