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India pledges rural and educational support for East Timor
India has offered to assist newly-independent East Timor, through rural development and by giving scholarships to youths to study at Indian universities.
India's junior foreign minister Omar Abdullah, went to East Timor to participate in the country's independence day celebrations.
A government statement says India has offered to send two rural development experts and offered a total of 30 scholarships for East Timorese students to study in Indian universities and technical institutes.
Pledges of support for East Timor have poured in since it attained independence on Monday.
The world's newest republic is the poorest in Asia with 40 per cent of the nation's 750-thousand population living in poverty
21/05/2002 04:00:33 | ABC Radio Australia News
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