In his meeting with Professor Hasegawa, Timor-Leste Interior Minister Longuinhos Monteiro explained that there was no internal security threat in Timor-Leste as the spirit of democratic governance has firmly been established.
As the Minister of the Interior, Mr. Longuinhos Monteiro, is responsible for the design, execution, coordination and evaluation of policy, defined and adopted by the Council of Ministers, for the areas of internal security, of migration and border control, the civil protection and police cooperation.
Minister Longuinhos expressed his appreciation of assistance provided by the United Nations system while he was the Prosecutor General of the Ministry of Justice and the General Commander of Polisia Nasional Timor-Leste (PNTL).
