Member state
Timor-Leste at the United Nations
- Admitted
- 2002-09-27
- ISO 3166-1
- TL / TLS
- Admitted by
- A/RES/57/3
International organisations
Every organisation this state belongs to that is compiled here, with the date it joined. Membership is resolved against this site’s own list of member states rather than taken from a query.
| Organisation | Joined |
|---|---|
| United Nations | 2002-09-27 |
Permanent representatives
1 recorded. Full list
| Name | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| António Guterres | 2017-01-01 | in office / not recorded |
Permanent mission
- Mission
- Permanent Mission of Timor-Leste to the United Nations
- Address
- Permanent Mission of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste to the United Nations, 370 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1704, New York, NY 10017
- National holiday
- 20 May
- Accredited diplomats
- 5
Accredited diplomats
- Mr. Karlito Nunes Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
- Mr. Jesuíno de Oliveira Alves Counsellor / Deputy Permanent Representative
- Ms. Sebastiana Barros Counsellor
- Mr. Joaquim José Costa Chaves Second Secretary
- Mr. Ivens Manuel Francisco Gusmăo de Sousa Second Secretary
The numbers
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Since 2001 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adult literacy rate | 69.4 | 2022 | |
| CO2 emissions per capita | 0.499344 | 2024 | |
| GDP | 1.90218e+09 | 2025 | |
| GNI per capita | 1,510 | 2025 | |
| Life expectancy at birth | 67.904 | 2024 | |
| Military expenditure (% of GDP) | 2.66416 | 2024 | |
| Net official development assistance received | 2.59935e+08 | 2023 | |
| Population | 1.41852e+06 | 2025 | |
| Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) | 0 | 2015 | |
| Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) | 15 | 2025 |
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General Debate statements
23 statements to the General Debate since 2003, 50,258 words in all. The longest was 2003, at 3,941 words, delivered by Mari Alkatiri.
Of the 23 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: President ×7, Prime Minister ×6, Minister for Foreign Affairs ×3, Chair of the Delegation ×2. Earlier years are excluded because UN records do not consistently identify a speaker’s post before 1994, and counting those years as though they did would make any state look as though it sent nobody senior.
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Emblems and location
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Treaties joined
37 actions recorded by the Secretary-General as depositary. Only treaties whose participant counts match the depositary’s own stated totals contribute rows.
Recorded votes
| Resolution | Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| A/RES/80/282 | - | non-voting |
| A/RES/80/286 | - | non-voting |
| A/RES/80/296 | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/293 B | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/294 | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/293 A | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/297 | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/299 | - | yes |
Provenance
Every fact on this page, with where it came from and how sure we are.
| Attribute | Value | Source | Confidence | Fetched |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iso2 | TL | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.905664+00:00 |
| iso3 | TLS | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.905673+00:00 |
| m49 | 626 | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:41.141508+00:00 |
| name | Timor-Leste | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.905645+00:00 |
| un_admission_date | 2002-09-27 | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.905654+00:00 |
| unsd_name | Timor-Leste | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:41.141514+00:00 |
Where this page comes from
- UN General Debate Corpus (Jankin, Baturo & Dasandi) — CC0 1.0 · source
- UN Research Guides (Dag Hammarskjold Library) — un.org website terms (all rights reserved) · source
- UN Statistics Division SDG Indicators API — CC BY 4.0 · source
- Wikidata — CC0 1.0 · source
- World Bank Open Data — CC BY 4.0 · source