{"id":15772,"date":"2022-12-12T22:49:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T14:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=15772"},"modified":"2022-12-12T22:49:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T14:49:45","slug":"agong-grants-audience-to-timor-leste-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=15772","title":{"rendered":"Agong grants audience to Timor-Leste President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12<\/strong> &#8212; Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri&#8217;ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah\u00a0granted an audience to\u00a0Timor-Leste President Dr Jos\u00e9 Ramos-Horta at Istana Negara here today.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a post on Istana Negara\u2019s Facebook page, during the 30-minute session that began at 3 pm,&nbsp;Al-Sultan Abdullah and&nbsp;Ramos-Horta touched&nbsp;on bilateral relations and several issues of mutual interest between Malaysia and&nbsp;Timor-Leste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cHis Majesty also expressed hope that bilateral relations will be strengthened in various aspects for the mutual benefit of both countries,\u201d<\/em> the post read.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM-1024x690.png\" alt=\"timor-leste\" class=\"wp-image-15773\" width=\"516\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM-1024x690.png 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM-768x517.png 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM-149x100.png 149w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM-350x236.png 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM-800x539.png 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM.png 1090w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Also present\u00a0were Economy Minister\u00a0Rafizi Ramli; Deputy Foreign Minister\u00a0Datuk Muhamad Alamin; Timor-Leste Foreign Minister\u00a0Dr. Adaljiza Albertina Xavier Dos Reis Magno and Timor-Leste Minister of Economic Affairs\u00a0Joaquim Amaral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramos-Horta&nbsp;and his delegation&nbsp;arrived in Malaysia&nbsp;yesterday and held a meeting with&nbsp;Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim at&nbsp;Seri Perdana in Putrajaya this morning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, Malaysia was Timor-Leste&#8217;s eighth largest trading partner and&nbsp;13th export destination as well as&nbsp;seventh source of imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From January to October 2022, the total bilateral trade between Malaysia and Timor-Leste&nbsp;was&nbsp;US$84.6 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/\">NMT<\/a> as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=2147183\">Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 &#8212; Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri&#8217;ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah\u00a0granted an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM.png",1090,734,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM-300x202.png",300,202,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM-768x517.png",640,431,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM-1024x690.png",640,431,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM.png",1090,734,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM.png",1090,734,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM.png",1090,734,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM.png",1024,690,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-12-at-10.48.10-PM.png",705,475,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15774,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15772\/revisions\/15774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}