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With world leaders’ ‘abysmal failure’ to uphold global order, ASEAN holds lessons: Timor-Leste president
With world leaders’ ‘abysmal failure’ to uphold global order, ASEAN holds lessons: Timor-Leste president President José Ramos-Horta also called on the Southeast Asian grouping to have the “audacity to declare the South China Sea a zone of peace” in a special address at the Shangri-La Dialogue on May 30.
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Sustained security can’t come from ‘barrel of a gun’: East Timor’s Jose Ramos-Horta
Sustained security can’t come from ‘barrel of a gun’: East Timor’s Jose Ramos-Horta The world can learn diplomatic lessons from Asean, East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has said in a strongly worded rebuke to existing global power structures. At the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday, Ramos-Horta, who leads the newest and 11th member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, argued that the bloc epitomised how dialogue could prevent conflict and yield dividends. He acknowledged that Asean was “not heaven on earth”, achieving consensus was “frustratingly slow”...

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No verdict, no pronouncement. The model extracts atomic factual claims with verbatim quotes; every quote is validated against the source text and corroboration is computed by counting how many editorially-opposed blocs assert each fact. 1 fabricated/unverifiable quotes were rejected by the cite-or-die gate.

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President José Ramos-Horta said the world can learn diplomatic lessons from ASEAN.
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scmp“The world can learn diplomatic lessons from Asean, East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has said in a strongly worded rebuke to existing global power structures.” cna“With world leaders’ ‘abysmal failure’ to uphold global order, ASEAN holds lessons: Timor-Leste president”

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President José Ramos-Horta called on ASEAN to declare the South China Sea a zone of peace.
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President José Ramos-Horta said ASEAN epitomised how dialogue could prevent conflict and yield dividends.
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President José Ramos-Horta acknowledged that ASEAN was ‘not heaven on earth’.
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President José Ramos-Horta acknowledged that achieving consensus in ASEAN was ‘frustratingly slow’.
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Framing · 3 — loaded language surfaced (spin shown, not adopted)

cna “With world leaders’ ‘abysmal failure’ to uphold global order” → World leaders failed to uphold global order
scmp “in a strongly worded rebuke to existing global power structures” → criticized existing global power structures
scmp “the newest and 11th member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations” → Timor-Leste is the 11th member of ASEAN

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ASEANorg Timor Lesteplace Jose Ramos-Hortaperson

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