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<font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Fiona Macrae <f.macrae@gfm.tl></font><br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Timor-Leste’s Maritime Boundary Office has launched <b><i>New Frontiers: Timor-Leste’s Historic Conciliation on Maritime Boundaries in the Timor Sea</i></b><i> –
</i>a publication that documents the first-ever compulsory conciliation process under the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">This publication is the authoritative record of the conciliation process; an 18 month journey of negotiations that led to the Maritime Boundary Treaty being signed by Timor-Leste and Australia at the United Nations Headquarters in New
York in March this year. The 100 page publication outlines the history of the maritime dispute between Timor-Leste and Australia, background to the Timor-Leste Government’s decision to initiate compulsory conciliation, the process itself, and the implications
of its success. </p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><i>New Frontiers</i></b><i> </i>will be a useful tool for people from around the world who have followed Timor-Leste’s struggle, and will be preserved in history as the official record of the process that bought Timor-Leste’s struggle
for permanent maritime boundaries in the Timor Sea to a conclusion. </p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">The book was launched in Dili by the Chief Negotiator Xanana Gusmão on Thursday 30 August – the anniversary of the referendum that delivered Timor-Leste its independence in 1999.
<b><i>New Frontiers</i></b> is available on the MBO website:</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Please read and share with your friends and colleagues.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:#1F497D" lang="EN-AU">Fiona Macrae</span></b></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:#1F497D" lang="EN-AU">Senior Information and Communications Adviser</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:#1F497D" lang="EN-AU">Maritime Boundary Office</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:#1F497D" lang="EN-AU">t +670 7742 5545</span></p>
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<b>Conselho para a Delimitação Definitiva das Fronteiras Marítimas / Council for the Final Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries</b><br>
<span style="background:white">Gabinete das Fronteiras Marítimas / Maritime Boundary Office</span><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black; background:white" lang="EN-AU">Andar, Ala Ocidental do Edifício / 1<sup>st</sup> Floor, West Wing Building</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black" lang="EN-AU"><br>
<span style="background:white">Palácio do Governo / Government Palace</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Avenida Marginal </span><br>
<span style="background:white">Dili, Timor-Leste</span></span></p>
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