Razali: We value our lifelong friend


Veteran diplomat Tan Sri Razali Ismail remembers his first posting as a young, idealistic Third Secretary to New Delhi.

“ALL I want is a glass of beer at room temperature,” said Lee Kuan Yew as he commandeered the young diplomat’s office in New Delhi.

It was 1962 and Tan Sri Razali Ismail was on his first foreign posting, as Third Secretary in the High Commission.

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