No plans for Malaysia to show off naval prowess over Spratly Islands dispute


KUALA LUMPUR: There are no plans for Malaysia to show off its naval prowess against China's military presence in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, said Foreign Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah (pic).

"We are not the type of nation that sends our naval armada elsewhere," he said, when replying a supplementary question by Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin (BN-Kinabatangan) during Question Time in the Dewan Rakyat on Wednesday (July 25).

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