The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, is the newborn Country in the 21st Century. It lies 400 km North of Australia across the Timor Sea, and in the Lesser Sunda Islands at the Eastern and of the Indonesian archipelago. Timor-Leste comprises the eastern half of Timor Island, the separate Enclave of Oecussi, situated in West Timor and the small Offshore Islands Atauro and Jaco.
On May 20, 2002, the Independence of Timor-Leste was restored and power was handed by the UN to the first Constitutional Government of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. Although the independence was restored, the country went through several phases of both internal and external reconciliation. Until December 2012, Timor-Leste, as the members of the community of states, has entered a new stage of nation-building following the withdrawal of the United Nations.