Timor-Leste: Timor-Leste Welcomes Australia's Return of Spying Documents Seized by Asio

May 3, 2015 | Daniel Hurst, The Guardian
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The Timor-Leste government has praised a decision by the Australian government to return documents about past spying that were at the centre of raids by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (Asio) in 2013. But Timor-Leste said there had still been a lack of progress on resolving a dispute between the two countries over a contentious oil and gas treaty, and warned it was “reserving its rights” on that issue. Australia’s northern neighbour launched action in the International Court of Justice in December 2013 after Asio seized documents from the offices of Timor-Leste’s Canberra-based legal adviser, Bernard Collaery.