Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim stressed here on Wednesday that Malaysia and Singapore should have close ties.
According to Channel NewsAsia reports, the ex-Malaysian deputy PM said this at a business seminar, which was organized by the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
Abwar strongly believed that Malaysia should encourage close relations with neighboring Singapore as the city state is an important neighbor and any sentiments against the country will not be to Malaysia's advantage.
"From a national perspective, the closer Malaysians are to Singapore, the better for Malaysia," he said.
Singapore and Malaysia have endured an uneasy relationship since they formally separated in 1965, but ties have been on the mend since Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi took power in 2003.
Besides the issue of Singapore's land reclamation in the Johor Strait, other outstanding issues include a row over the price of water supplied to Singapore by Malaysia, a Malaysian plan to replace a causeway across the Singapore Strait with a modern bridge and the fate of a Malaysian railway line that runs into the heart of Singapore.
Source: Xinhua
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