Australia will pay back Timor-Leste's oil revenue, Jose Ramos-Horta says

Former president says he has faith his country’s far richer neighbour will not quarrel over revenue it wrongly received

Jose Ramos-Horta, the former president of Timor-Leste and Nobel laureate, says he believes Australia will reimburse “every cent it wrongly received” after the countries signed a maritime border treaty last year.

His comments are in response to revelations in Guardian Australia that the Australian government was taking millions of dollars a month in oil revenue which should belong to Timor-Leste because it hasn’t ratified the treaty.

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