Internal pressure led UNAMET to work in forced marches until 30 August 1999, the day the referendum was to take place.

The independence ceremony was attended by Mexican Foreign Undersecretary Miguel Marín Bosch.

Mexico immediately recognized the independence of East Timor, becoming the second Latin American nation to do so.

[3] In 2010, East Timorese Minister of the Economy, João Mendes Goncalves, attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancún.

[6] East Timor's main exports to Mexico include: power transformers, air pumps and plastic articles.