A New President for Timor
Former Freedom Fighter and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos Horta has been sworn in as the new president of East Timor.
East Timor, a Portuguese colony, became an Indonesian colony in 1975 and gained independence from Indonesia in 2002.
Ramos Horta, 72, was a pioneer in the struggle for independence and was sworn in as the new president 20 years after independence from Indonesia.
The new president promised to build a dialogue to reduce poverty, improve health care for children and mothers, and build political stability.
Jose Ramos Horta lived in exile for nearly three decades and arrived in East Timor in 1999. Timor won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 for providing a peaceful solution to the conflict.
(BBC)
