August 30, 2012
My Response to Dato' Norhaidi of Wisma Putra
by Din Merican
I read a purported rebuttal by a Foreign Minister's Political Secretary which you posted earlier upon this blog with considerable concern. It is a ultimate in a prolonged list of justification of insufficiency as well as lack of professionalism in a Foreign Ministry, or Wisma Putra as it ordinarily known.
If anything, a come-back exemplifies a proverb "It's improved to be silent as well as thought a fool, than to verbalise up as well as remove all doubt" for it only done a Minister demeanour worse than he actually is. Why purported? Well, Dato Norhaidi is not exactly well well known for his fluency in English. Therefore, it is doubtful which this wayward come-back could be done by him. Furthermore, political secretaries have not been well well known to do this kind of work.
A Ghost Written Rebuttal
The come-back is some-more expected to be a work of Ahmad Rozian Abdul Ghani, Wisma Putra's Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy as well as External report who was roasted in this blog a little months ago. Or it could have been written by a vast committee headed by Rozian as well as authorized by Kedah-born Tan Sri Radzi Bin Abdul Rahman, a Secretary-General? In any event, you hope which a real author would clarify things for a benefit.
However, it is not satisfactory to lay a censure entirely! upon a Foreign Minister with whom you have exchanged views as well as ideas upon a hand phone, as well as upon this blog. He is after all a statesman as well as not a veteran diplomat. The censure must, therefore, be borne by a Secretary -General as well as his comparison officers.
I have upon record as well as others toosaid which a present set up in Wisma Putra is a many dysfunctional ever. The Minister is unable to manage his comparison officers. Thinking which they have been quietly rebelling against him, Minister Anifah, a non-Peninsular Foreign Minister, doesn't engage his officers.
Apparently, even a mandatory weekly meetings, introduced in a 1960s by a mythological King Ghaz (left) as "Friday prayers" where issues have been discussed, have been a thing of a past.
Without ministerial control as well as supervision, Radzi's sub par perfomance is further ruining Wisma Putra.
To have himself demeanour good, he has filled up pass positions with sycophants as well as officers who had served with him rsther than with officers selected upon a basement of merit as well as expertise. That is how insufficiency perpetuates itself, similar to turtles all a approach down.
Wisma Putra: A Toxic Set-Up
I am told which even a Minister's requests to remove amateurish officers have been assumingly routinely disregarded.In management-speak Wisma Putra would be a good e.g. of a poisonous organisation. It's easy to guess a state of a Ministry. There is a glaring deficiency of shared role as well as constrained clarity of mission. With insufficiency being routinely rewarded, rancour is high as well as morale low in Wisma Putra today.
Recently, a Secretary-General wrote a square in a Star entitled "Creating an ASEAN Community". Although which square was far superior to his earlier vacuous square upon a Ministry's consular services, his ultimate square also stands an e.g. of his incapacity to articulate foreign process issues clearly as well as cogently beyond cutting-and-pasting tactful phrases taken from official communiqus which have been written some-more to conceal rsther than than elucidate issues.
Tan Sri Radzi (right) talks about ushering a village by 2015. What does this
meant for a ordinary Malaysians? We have been endangered which you could be during a cusp of a dangerous lapse to a bad aged days when Southeast Asia was referred to as "Balkans of a East".
As Malaysians, you have been very endangered which untrammeled major energy rivalry, namely US-China relations vis-a-vis a Asia-Pacific, could mutilate assent as well as stability which you had well well known for many of a lives.
It would have been most some-more obliged for him to demonstrate a concerns which ASEAN is now upon a wrong track. It would be obliged for him to share a little extended thoughts upon Malaysia's categorical design during a November 2012 Summit in Phnom Penh.
How would Malaysia, as a singular of a categorical petitioner states, work with others to ensure which a appalling disunity displayed in April would not be repeated? Without restoring ASEAN's liberty as a section of peace, leisure as well as neutrality, looking forward to declaring an ASEAN Community during a Chairmanship would merely be an dull PR exercise which would be bereft of meaning or purpose.
Even if Tan Sri Radzi wishes to talk of a ASEAN Community, he could during slightest have explained which a ASEAN Community is not envisaged as a copy o! f a Euro pean Community. If it not going to be similar to a EU, what then have been we, a ordinary adults to expect?
What do these mean?
"Under a APSC, a part of states have affianced to regard their confidence as fundamentally linked to a singular another as well as bound by geographic location, usual vision as well as objectives."
"When you have an ASEAN Economic Community, you shall see a giveaway flow of goods, services, investment as well as capital, equitable economic development by marked down misery as well as socio-economic disparities. The design is to spin Asean into a singular marketplace as well as prolongation base by harnessing a diversity which characterises a region into opportunities to spin it into a stronger shred of a tellurian supply chain."
Obviously these conceptual questions have been too most for him as well as a Ministry.
Given a approach a Foreign Ministry is run these days, it is rarely expected which Malaysia will be able to fool around any meaningful role in advancing an enlightened Foreign Policy.
2015 is an important year for Malaysia. As mentioned by Tan Sri Radzi, you will be a ASEAN Chair in 2015. The Foreign Minister also mentioned which Malaysia would seek a non-permanent confidence legislature seat for 2015-2016.
It's most appropriate for Wisma Putra if a present Secretary-General moves upon fast as well as leave in his place a team of officers selected upon a basement of their proven capability so which during slightest you will have during slightest two years to entirely hope for to have certain which you have been up to a mark to take upon these responsibilities.
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