Singapore and Malaysia have made the consistent choice, across every generation of leadership, to keep looking to the future and building together, said President Tharman Shanmugaratnam. This basic orientation of always focusing on the larger goal of growing together and expanding shared interests has made the relationship a robust one, he added during a call on Malaysia’s King, Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar, at the Istana Negara in Kuala Lumpur on July 13. “The Singapore-Malaysia relationship indeed has a quality that is difficult to find elsewhere, a quality that goes well beyond the here and now,” President Tharman said. The President said both countries share a history of coming together in difficult circumstances, followed by a separation that was just as difficult for both sides. He was referring to the merger in 1963 and Singapore’s separation from the Federation of Malaysia in 1965.   https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/singapore-malaysia-have-made-consistent-choice-to-look-to-the-future-build-together-tharman?ref=top-story (ICE SINGAPORE)

Fonte notizia: The Straits Times, 14 July 2026