Relationship dossier
Cambodia
Timor-Leste
Relationship assessment
Cambodia supported Timor-Leste’s ASEAN membership aspirations during its 2022 chairmanship.
Cambodia toward Timor-Leste
+20During Cambodia’s 2022 ASEAN chairmanship, Cambodia helped secure ASEAN leaders’ agreement in principle to admit Timor-Leste and grant it observer status while it prepared for membership.
Timor-Leste toward Cambodia
Not assessedOverall relationship
Not assessedHow to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Cambodia supported Timor-Leste’s path toward ASEAN membership during Cambodia’s 2022 chairmanship, when ASEAN leaders agreed in principle to admit Timor-Leste and granted it observer status pending preparations. Other concrete bilateral cooperation is unclear.
Key developments
ASEAN leaders agreed in principle to admit Timor-Leste and granted it observer status, with Cambodia holding the ASEAN chairmanship.
Major uncertainties
- The scope of direct bilateral cooperation beyond Cambodia’s support for Timor-Leste’s ASEAN membership is unclear.
- Details of Timor-Leste government cooperation specifically with Cambodia are limited.