February 8, 2013
Diplomacy : Malaysia's First Line of Defense
by Datuk Dr Ananda Kumaraseri | akumaraseri@yahoo.com
INDONESIAN Konfrontasi as good as the Philippines' Sabah Claim acted hurdles for Malaysia's unfamiliar process as good as conduct of the general family as good as diplomacy.
Indonesian Konfrontasi did not consecrate an outright war opposite Malaysia, though it enclosed serious acts of aggression, reduced of the full-scale war.
The extreme campaign of feeling as good as the destructive worldwide propaganda opposite Malaysia unleashed by the Indonesian supervision came as the bold shock. Combined with the tactical troops pressures practical by the Indonesian government, Konfrontasi most positively turned out to be most some-more than the dire tactful plea for the Malaysian supervision as good as bureaucracy.
The Ministry of External Affairs with the Tunku as Minister was not usually ill-prepared though also ill-equipped in conditions of manpower as good as resources to counter the sudden onslaught of the distant better-oiled Indonesian tactful as good as propaganda machineries. Indeed, the Indonesian offensive, combined with the concurrent threat to the government stemming from the Philippines' Sabah Claim, was in tangible actuality the make the difference of hold up as good as death for the newly shaped Malaysia.
However, the twin hurdles of Indonesian Konfrontasi as good as the Sabah Claim gimlet the silver lining. The baptism by glow Malaysia underwent in conducting general family as good as tact served critical lessons early in hold up as the republic state.
The ve hement Indonesian as good as Filipino campaigns opposite Malaysia which threatened the really existence as the republic spurred the quest by the supervision for the newly shaped Malaysia to be recognised internationally as the sovereign eccentric nation. In confronting the grave outmost challenge, the country was means to fall back on the abounding tactful acumen, ingenuity as good as tactful skills to canvass for understanding, magnetism as good as support from the general village during regional as good as tellurian forums.The government's tactful reply witnessed the host of Malaysian leaders, led by Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, shuttling to world capitals in an aspiring effort to find the peaceful solution to the twin challenges. The leadership supposing by the ever affable statesman, the Tunku, coupled with his sagacious process of anticipation as good as perseverance for the negotiated settlement, valid crucial in this critical connection of the nation's history.
Together with the tactful astuteness as good as the negotiation skills possessed
by the handful of efficient diplomats led by the afterwards Permanent Secretary, Datuk (now the late Tun) Ghazali Shafie, the serve decrease of family with Indonesia as good as the Philippines was averted.
The steady troops benefit supposing by Britain, Australia as good as New Zealand underneath the Anglo-Malaysian Defence Agreement helped to pre-empt an exacerbation of outmost troops pressures as good as armed threats opposite Malaysia. Malaysian tact came to set down as good as bilateral family with both the hitherto adversarial neighbours were amicably restored in 1966.
The primary setbacks which Malaysia encountered in responding to the twin outmost hurdles had the certain outcome on coalescing Malay! sia as t he republic as good as privately on strengthening the country's tactful machinery. The dire experience represented, in many ways, the watershed for Malaysia.
It called for the serious self-examination of the country's unfamiliar process as good as an obligatory rethinking of the conduct of the general family as good as the citation of the diplomacy. This resulted in the distinct shift in Malaysia's unfamiliar process emphasis.
The young nation's psyche per the real potential of outmost threats to the territorial firmness as good as government deepened appreciably. The supervision as good as the bureaucracy became some-more elegant of the importance of tact in safeguarding the country's inhabitant interests, together with possible outmost threats to the country's territorial firmness as good as sovereignty.
A greater acceptance of tact as the country's initial line of defence opposite outmost threats ensued, as good as the pointy enlarge in resource allocations for the enlargement of the tactful machinery. This saw changes in the country's tactful apparatus, which featured the dramatic expansion of the Ministry of External Affairs (Foreign Affairs Ministry) as good as the far-flung abroad tactful missions.
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