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Also known as Mari bin Amude Alkatiri

Prime Minister of East Timor

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  • Timor-Leste, o caminho do desenvolvimento

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  • Given Greater Sunrise falls within Timor Leste, why does Australia get any (oil royalties)? It was 50-50 when there were no (sea) boundaries. After they agreed on the boundaries everything was different.

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Key facts

President
Francisco Guterres
Preceded by
Rui Maria de Araújo
Succeeded by
Taur Matan Ruak
Born
( 1949-11-26 ) 26 November 1949 (age 76) , Dili , Portuguese Timor (now East Timor )
Party
Fretilin
Alma mater
Eduardo Mondlane University

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Timor-Leste
Place of birth
Dili
Occupation
politician
Religion
Muslim
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Marí bin Amude Alkatiri
date of birth
1949-11-26
name in native language
Mari Alkatiri
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Encyclopedic overview

Mari bin Amude Alkatiri GCIH (Arabic: مرعي بن عمودة الكثيري, romanised: Marʿī bin ʿAmūdah al-Kathīrī; born 26 November 1949) is a Timorese politician. He was Prime Minister of East Timor from May 2002 until his resignation on 26 June 2006 following weeks of political unrest in the country, and again from September 2017 until May 2018. He is the Secretary-General of the Fretilin party and was the former President of the Special Administrative Region of Oecusse.

Alkatiri is an Hadhrami Arab by ethnicity and comes from the Al-Kathiri tribe, a branch of which ruled the sultanate of Kathiri in the Hadhramaut, which is now part of Yemen. He is one of very few Muslim politicians in a country that is largely Christian. The main issues facing his second term as prime minister were environmental conservation, cultural conservation, accession of East Timor to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, free public education and public health services, and building the country's economy, notably the lagging services and manufacturing sectors.

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