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Saturday, July 19, 2003
Water-Talks between Singapore and Malaysia
The recent Malaysian attempts to explain their side of the story regarding the ongoing water negotiations between the 2 countries is quite ridiculous. Instead of focussing on the facts of the case, they are trying to rely on emotion and on appeals to "fairness". Having to resort to using media advertisements instead of normal diplomatic channels means that they have run out of valid arguments and have to use hype and fuzzy untruths to back themselves up in this instance.
None of their foreign ministry or information websites contain anything of substance with regard to this matter. This is because they have no argument on their side, and are just trying to conjure up something from their imagination, in order not to lose face with their uninformed populace.
Wonder if you can find anything substantial at these URLs? Some of the links do not even work properly (as is expected for things in general in that country, including the government) :-
www.neac.gov.my
www.myglobal.gov.my
www.kln.gov.my
www.kempen.gov.my
Compare this with Singapore's side of the argument which from the start, laid out all the facts clearly as they are, with regard to the actual situation. The Malaysians have nothing to dispute these facts, and as far as I am aware acknowledge them to be correct.
www.mfa.gov.sg
I believe the Malaysian government has nothing on their side from the legal point of view, and are just grasping at straws so that they will not end up looking like fools. However, everything that they say will just make them look more and more stupid to those who are informed of the real situation. I think the crux of the matter is that those who were responsible for administering the water agreement do not understand legalities and probably are not capable of reading and understanding such things properly.
Also, the Malaysian government led by the madman Mahathir, are not able to keep to their word during the negotiation process; agreeing on one thing at first, and then changing their minds later. This is why the negotiations have stalled and although Singapore is still willing to continue the talks, the Malaysians are either not sincere, or do not have an idea what outcome they want the talks to achieve, and therefore they are not able to proceed or to come to a conclusion from the negotiations.
I think the only way that this agreement can be finally resolved, is for either Singapore to invade Malaysia and take over the country, so that we can show them how to properly run the country, or for Singapore to be self sufficient in water within the next 25 to 50 years by recyling, desalination and other high tech water management processes. When that happens, then the Malaysian government of the day will moan that Singapore is not being friendly by refusing to buy anymore water from them.
The Malaysian government is not capable of processing sufficient quantity of their own raw water in Johore state, and are actually making a good profit buying cheap processed water from Singapore and then re-selling it to their own people at a high price. They have purposely tried to avoid or conceal this fact in any of their arguments about Singapore being "unfair, arrogant, legalistic or unfriendly". Perhaps this is the real reason for the Malaysian government not wanting to change the existing water agreement with Singapore, since someone is probably getting rich as it is, and things would be changed for this person when the water price gets revised.
Singapore government's reply to Malaysia's ad media blitz on the water issue.
Response from Singapore MFA to Malaysia ads
The recent Malaysian attempts to explain their side of the story regarding the ongoing water negotiations between the 2 countries is quite ridiculous. Instead of focussing on the facts of the case, they are trying to rely on emotion and on appeals to "fairness". Having to resort to using media advertisements instead of normal diplomatic channels means that they have run out of valid arguments and have to use hype and fuzzy untruths to back themselves up in this instance.
None of their foreign ministry or information websites contain anything of substance with regard to this matter. This is because they have no argument on their side, and are just trying to conjure up something from their imagination, in order not to lose face with their uninformed populace.
Wonder if you can find anything substantial at these URLs? Some of the links do not even work properly (as is expected for things in general in that country, including the government) :-
www.neac.gov.my
www.myglobal.gov.my
www.kln.gov.my
www.kempen.gov.my
Compare this with Singapore's side of the argument which from the start, laid out all the facts clearly as they are, with regard to the actual situation. The Malaysians have nothing to dispute these facts, and as far as I am aware acknowledge them to be correct.
www.mfa.gov.sg
I believe the Malaysian government has nothing on their side from the legal point of view, and are just grasping at straws so that they will not end up looking like fools. However, everything that they say will just make them look more and more stupid to those who are informed of the real situation. I think the crux of the matter is that those who were responsible for administering the water agreement do not understand legalities and probably are not capable of reading and understanding such things properly.
Also, the Malaysian government led by the madman Mahathir, are not able to keep to their word during the negotiation process; agreeing on one thing at first, and then changing their minds later. This is why the negotiations have stalled and although Singapore is still willing to continue the talks, the Malaysians are either not sincere, or do not have an idea what outcome they want the talks to achieve, and therefore they are not able to proceed or to come to a conclusion from the negotiations.
I think the only way that this agreement can be finally resolved, is for either Singapore to invade Malaysia and take over the country, so that we can show them how to properly run the country, or for Singapore to be self sufficient in water within the next 25 to 50 years by recyling, desalination and other high tech water management processes. When that happens, then the Malaysian government of the day will moan that Singapore is not being friendly by refusing to buy anymore water from them.
The Malaysian government is not capable of processing sufficient quantity of their own raw water in Johore state, and are actually making a good profit buying cheap processed water from Singapore and then re-selling it to their own people at a high price. They have purposely tried to avoid or conceal this fact in any of their arguments about Singapore being "unfair, arrogant, legalistic or unfriendly". Perhaps this is the real reason for the Malaysian government not wanting to change the existing water agreement with Singapore, since someone is probably getting rich as it is, and things would be changed for this person when the water price gets revised.
Singapore government's reply to Malaysia's ad media blitz on the water issue.
Response from Singapore MFA to Malaysia ads