Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Timor-Leste)
East Timorese government minister
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Portuguese: Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros e Cooperação, Tetum: Ministru Negósius Estranjeirus no Kooperasaun) is a senior member of the Constitutional Government of Timor-Leste heading the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
- Minister
- (informal)
- His Excellency
- (formal, diplomatic)
- President of Timor-Leste
- (following proposal by the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste)
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| Member of | Constitutional Government |
| Reports to | Prime Minister |
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| Inaugural holder | José Ramos-Horta |
| Formation | 1975 / 2000 |
Functions
Under the Constitution of Timor-Leste, the Minister has the power and the duty:
- to implement the policy defined for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation;
- to ensure relations between the Government and the other organs of the State in the area of responsibility of the Ministry.[1]
Where the Minister is in charge of the subject matter of a government statute, the Minister is also required, together with the Prime Minister, to sign the statute.[1]
History
In the 1975 Council of Ministers,[2] and also in the I UNTAET Transitional Government (2000–2001),[3][4][5] the title of the Minister was "Minister of Foreign Affairs". When the II UNTAET Transitional Government took office on 20 September 2001, the title was changed to Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.[6]
Incumbent
The incumbent minister is Bendito Freitas.[7][8]
List of ministers
The following individuals have been appointed as the minister:
| No. | Party | Minister | Portrait | Government (Prime Minister) |
Term start | Term end | Term in office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fretilin | José Ramos-Horta | .jpg) |
1975 CoM (Lobato) |
1 December 1975 | 17 December 1975 | 16 days | |
| (1) | Independent | José Ramos-Horta | |
I UNTAET (Vieira de Mello) |
15 July 2000 | 31 March 2001 | 259 days | |
| 15 July 2001 | 20 September 2001 | 4 years, 360 days | ||||||
| II UNTAET (Alkatiri) |
20 September 2001 | 20 May 2002 | ||||||
| I Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
20 May 2002 | 10 July 2006 | ||||||
| 2 | Fretilin | José Luís Guterres |  |
II Constitutional (Ramos-Horta) |
10 July 2006 | 19 May 2007 | 313 days | |
| (acting) | Adaljíza Magno |  |
III Constitutional (da Silva) |
19 May 2007 | 8 August 2007 | 81 days | ||
| 3 | PSD | Zacarias da Costa |  |
IV Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2007 | 8 August 2012 | 5 years, 0 days | |
| (2) | FM | José Luís Guterres | |
V Constitutional (Gusmão) |
8 August 2012 | 16 February 2015 | 2 years, 192 days | |
| 4 | Fretilin | Hernâni Coelho |  |
VI Constitutional (Araújo) |
16 February 2015 | 15 September 2017 | 2 years, 211 days | |
| 5 | Aurélio Sérgio Cristóvão Guterres |  |
VII Constitutional (Alkatiri) |
15 September 2017 | 22 June 2018 | 280 days | ||
| 6 | CNRT | Dionísio da Costa Babo Soares |  |
VIII Constitutional (Ruak) |
22 June 2018 | 25 May 2020 | 1 year, 338 days | |
| 7 | Fretilin | Adaljíza Albertina Xavier Reis Magno | |
VIII Constitutional (Ruak) (restructured) |
24 June 2020 | 1 July 2023 | 3 years, 7 days | |
| 8 | CNRT | Bendito Freitas |  |
IX Constitutional (Gusmão) |
1 July 2023 | Incumbent | 3 years, 75 days | |
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