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Australian PM welcomes East Timorese counterpart
The Associated Press , Canberra | Mon, 08/25/2008 9:01 AM | World
East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao on Monday became the first foreign head of government to be formally welcomed to the Australian capital by Prime Minister Kevin
Rudd.
Gusmao was given a 19-gun salute when he arrived at Parliament House for a meeting with Rudd, whose center-left Labor Party government was elected in November last year after more than 11
years in opposition.
The former president and freedom fighter plans to ask Rudd to offer short-term work visas so that some East Timorese can escape the poverty of their homeland.
"Of course I have to raise this question with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd," Gusmao told The Australian newspaper in the northern city of Darwin Sunday.
"In the deep of my heart, I believe he will say 'yes,"' Gusmao is quoted in Monday's paper as saying.
Accompanied by his Australian-born wife Kirsty Sword, Gusmao will travel to the cities of Sydney and Melbourne before returning to Dili on Wednesday.
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