{"id":21779,"date":"2026-05-18T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/?p=21779"},"modified":"2026-05-18T01:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:26:59","slug":"may-18-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/?p=21779","title":{"rendered":"May 18, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the invitation of H.E. Bendito dos Santos Freitas, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, will undertake a Working Visit to Timor-Leste, on 19-20 May 2026, to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the Restoration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the visit, Dr. Kao is scheduled to pay courtesy calls on H.E. Jos\u00e9 Manuel Ramos-Horta, President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, and H.E. Kay Rala Xanana Gusm\u00e3o, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste as well as to meet with H.E. Bendito dos Santos Freitas, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These engagements will reaffirm ASEAN\u2019s continued support for Timor-Leste\u2019s full and effective membership in ASEAN. Dr. Kao will also participate and deliver remarks at the Ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the International Convention Center (ICC), in Dili.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"817\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"21780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HIjnjPmXUAAxmwH-817x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HIjnjPmXUAAxmwH-817x1024.jpg 817w, https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HIjnjPmXUAAxmwH-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HIjnjPmXUAAxmwH-768x963.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HIjnjPmXUAAxmwH-300x376.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HIjnjPmXUAAxmwH-850x1066.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/HIjnjPmXUAAxmwH.jpg 1122w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 817px) 100vw, 817px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the invitation of H.E. Bendito dos Santos Freitas, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, Secretary-General of ASEAN, Dr. Kao Kim Hourn, will undertake a Working&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21781,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21779\/revisions\/21781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaokimhourn.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}