The official opening of Viet Nam’s Embassy in Timor Leste is regarded as a significant milestone, contributing to the deepening of friendship and cooperation between the two countries in a more substantive and effective manner, for the benefit of their peoples as well as for ASEAN solidarity and development.

Timor Leste Ambassador to Viet Nam Joao Pereira has expressed his confidence that Viet Nam will remain a key economic, political, and socio-cultural pillar of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).