February 8, 2013
Diplomacy : Malaysia's First Line of Defense
by Datuk Dr Ananda Kumaraseri | akumaraseri@yahoo.com
INDONESIAN Konfrontasi as good as a Philippines' Sabah Claim acted hurdles for Malaysia's unfamiliar process as good as control of a general family as good as diplomacy.
Indonesian Konfrontasi did not constitute an undisguised fight opposite Malaysia, though it enclosed vicious acts of aggression, reduced of a full-scale war.
The extreme debate of hostility as good as a virulent worldwide propaganda opposite Malaysia unleashed by a Indonesian supervision came as a bold shock. Combined with a tactical troops pressures applied by a Indonesian government, Konfrontasi many certainly incited out to be much more than a dire tactful plea for a Malaysian supervision as good as bureaucracy.
The Ministry of External Affairs with a Tunku as Minister was not only ill-prepared though additionally ill-equipped in conditions of manpower as good as resources to opposite a sudden onslaught of a distant better-oiled Indonesian tactful as good as propaganda machineries. Indeed, a Indonesian offensive, total with a concurrent hazard to a government stemming from a Philippines' Sabah Claim, was in tangible actuality a matter of life as good as death for a newly shaped Malaysia.
However, a identical tiwn hurdles of Indonesian Konfrontasi as good as a Sabah Claim gimlet a china lining. The baptism by fire Malaysia underwent in conducting general family as good as tact served important lessons early in life as a republic state.
The vehement Indones! ian as g ood as Filipino campaigns opposite Malaysia which in jeopardy a really existence as a republic spurred a query by a supervision for a newly shaped Malaysia to be recognized internationally as a emperor eccentric nation. In facing a grave outmost challenge, a nation was able to tumble behind upon a rich tactful acumen, ingenuity as good as tactful skills to seek votes for understanding, magnetism as good as support from a general village during regional as good as tellurian forums.
The government's tactful response witnessed a horde of Malaysian leaders, led by Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, shuttling to universe capitals in an aspiring bid to seek a pacific solution to a identical tiwn challenges. The leadership provided by a ever affable statesman, a Tunku, joined with his quick process of anticipation as good as stability for a negotiated settlement, valid consequential in this vicious connection of a nation's history.
Together with a tactful intuition as good as a negotiation skills possessed
by a handful of efficient diplomats led by a then Permanent Secretary, Datuk (now a late Tun) Ghazali Shafie, a serve deterioration of family with Indonesia as good as a Philippines was averted.
The solid troops benefit provided by Britain, Australia as good as New Zealand underneath a Anglo-Malaysian Defence Agreement helped to capture an exacerbation of outmost troops pressures as good as armed threats opposite Malaysia. Malaysian tact came to roost as good as bilateral family with both a hitherto adversarial neighbours were amicably restored in 1966.
The primary setbacks which Malaysia encountered in responding to a identical tiwn outmost hurdles had a positive outcome upon coalescing Malaysia as a republic as good as specifically upon strengthening a count! ry's tac tful machinery. The dire knowledge represented, in many ways, a watershed for Malaysia.
It called for a vicious self-examination of a country's unfamiliar process as good as an obligatory rethinking of a control of a general family as good as a direction of a diplomacy. This resulted in a graphic shift in Malaysia's unfamiliar process emphasis.
The immature nation's essence regarding a genuine potential of outmost threats to a territorial firmness as good as government deepened appreciably. The supervision as good as a bureaucracy became more appreciative of a importance of tact in safeguarding a country's national interests, including possible outmost threats to a country's territorial firmness as good as sovereignty.
A larger acceptance of tact as a country's first line of defence opposite outmost threats ensued, as good as a pointy increase in equipment allocations for a enlargement of a tactful machinery. This saw changes in a country's tactful apparatus, which featured a thespian growth of a Ministry of External Affairs (Foreign Affairs Ministry) as good as a far-flung overseas tactful missions.
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