East Timor's President-elect Jose Ramos-Horta said Thursday he expects his country to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in 2023 when Indonesia chairs the 10-member bloc.During the 72-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate's first stint as president from 2007 to 2012, his government submitted its application to join ASEAN in 2011, at which time Indonesia also chaired the 10-member group."It would be highly symbolic if Timor-Leste were to join during the Indonesian presidency," he said in an interview with Kyodo News in the capital Dili, using the Portuguese name for the country…READ FULL ARTICLE
