MALAYSIA’S new Permanent Representative to the United Nations Datuk Rastam Mohd Isa arrived in New York on March 19 just hours after the first cruise missiles struck Iraq to signal the start of the US-led attack.
It was a long flight from Kuala Lumpur with a five-hour stopover in London, but within two hours of arriving he was at his desk at the Malaysian Mission at 313 East 43rd Street.
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