At the ASEAN-India Summit in Jakarta on 7 September 2023, Prime Minister announced a decision to establish an Indian Embassy in Dili, Timor-Leste.
- This decision was warmly welcomed by Timor Leste and ASEAN Members. Timor Leste joined ASEAN in 2022 as an Observor, before becoming its full Member.
- Timor-Leste became an independent nation in 2002, following over four hundred years of Portuguese colonization, twenty-four years of Indonesian occupation, and three years of United Nations transitional administration .
- Before gaining independence, it was a province of Indonesia.
- East Timor, an island country in the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands, is located at the southern extreme of the Malay Archipelago.
- Its chief town, Pante Makasar, is a port and has an airport.
