BANGKOK, -- Was former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad a statesman or a healing doctor first?
Contrary to usual belief that he assimilated politics after practising medicine, Dr Mahathir pronounced he was initial a statesman as well as afterwards obtained his healing grade to gain credential in pursuing his political career.
Dr Mahathir, who served for 22 years from 1981 as a fourth prime apportion of Malaysia until he stepped down in 2003, referred to this when he was being interviewed during "A Power Dialogue" here last night.
He was interviewed by Abdul Halim Ismail, who is also a Asean secretary-general widely known as Dr Surin Pitsuwan.
Dr Surin, a Muslim who hails from Nakhon Si Thammarat in a center south of Thailand as well as was attired in a dim fit as well as a white skull cap in a rare open appearance, acted a subject during a dialogue in between them at a gala dinner in jubilee of a 72nd anniversary of "Pondok Bantan" (the internal Islamic religious school).
Dr Surin, a former Thai unfamiliar minister, became a Asean arch in 2008. His tenure will finish by a finish of this year.
Proud to declare himself "a Pondok student," Dr Surin holds a Master's grade as well as a PhD in Political Science as well as Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University.
Asked where would Malaysia be now though a Vision 2020 he introduced to make a republic a developed nation, Dr Mahathir pronounced a republic would still progress though substantially though any focus as a prophesy dynamic its citation as well as plans.
Touching! on a fo rmation of a Asean Community by 2015, Dr Mahathir pronounced a regional organisation contingency equivocate a mistakes made by a European Union.
"The European Union is in difficulty currently because it can't work for a good of all members as it focuses on a abounding members only. Asean contingency make sure a bad countries would good from a village too," he said.
Asean, he said, contingency equivocate a inapplicable designation of introducing a usual banking which, he added, benefits a abounding countries only though creates a price of vital in a bad countries to rise dramatically.
As for globalisation, he said, Asean contingency demeanour in to a interest of a bad countries as well as they would not good from a freer market.
"The globalisation comes from abounding countries as well as we contingency not adopt it 100 per cent. We contingency examine ourselves. We do not want a abounding to become richer as well as a poor, poorer."
Answering a subject from a floor, Dr Mahathir pronounced Asean needs to ask associate part of Myanmar to stop what he pronounced was oppression opposite a Rohingya ethnic minority.
-- BERNAMA
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