RECOGNISING MALAYSIA
Indonesia’s Reservation (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) BANGKOK, November 12. Indonesia has again raised the Malaysia issue in the Colombo Plan conference. Addressing the conference this morning the leader of the Indonesian delegation, Air Vice-Marshal Iskandar, said: “I wish to stress that the inclusion of ‘Malaysia’ in all documents of the Colombo Plan this year will be accepted by my delegation only under reservation.” Air Vice-Marshal Iskandar intimated his country would never again trade through the Malaysian states which formerly handled the bulk of Indonesia’s exports. Emerging from the closed meeting, the leader of the Malaysian delegation. Tun Abdul Razak, said: “If that is the way the Indonesians want it, they can have it” Indonesia opposes Malaysia because it claims it is a neocolonialist plot to encircle it
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30287, 13 November 1963, Page 17
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