Light moment: Najib speaking with Cameron after a press conference in Putrajaya recently. Despite it being the first visit to Malaysia by a British premier in nearly two decades, Malaysian-British ties have remained strong throughout the period.
Flying from Kuala Lumpur to London is more familiar to many Malaysians than flying to many Asean capitals, even though Asean is supposed to achieve its economic community in 2015.
BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron visited Malaysia last week, after nearly two decades of what our Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak termed “benign neglect”, at least in political and diplomatic terms, for throughout that time the people-to-people relationships have remained exceptionally strong.
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