Southeast Asian Affairs, January 1st, 2000
Ties with Malaysia continued their roller-coaster ride, with contentious issues as yet unresolved by year-end 1999. In January, the new Malaysian Foreign Minister, Datuk Syed Hamid Albar, said that his top priority was to ease tension in Singapore-Malaysia relations. It was after this that meetings were set up to discuss a range of issues left over from 1998 which had aroused acrimony on both sides of the causeway.face=+Superscript; 36face=-Superscript; These included Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) facilities for Malaysia in Singapore, Malaysia's continued water supply to Singapore,...
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