Unravelling Timor-Leste’s Greater Sunrise strategy (East Asia Forum)

Disputes over the resource-rich Timor Sea have consumed bilateral relations between Timor-Leste and Australia. In 2006, Timor-Leste’s then foreign minister José Ramos-Horta and his Australian counterpart, Alexander Downer, signed the Treaty of Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea (CMATS). The treaty aimed to distribute revenues derived from the lucrative but disputed Greater Sunrise oil and gas field

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/06/04/unravelling-timor-lestes-greater-sunrise-strategy/