S'pore made no new requests of Indonesia after signing defence
pact: MFA
By Ng Baoying, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 06 July 2007 1719
hrs
SINGAPORE: Singapore has made no new requests of Indonesia after
the two countries signed the Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) in
April.
In a statement, the Singapore Foreign Affairs Ministry rebutted
remarks made by Indonesian Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono on
Wednesday.
He claimed that Singapore demanded 15 days a month for exercises in
Area Bravo in South China Sea and this, he said, was
unacceptable.
Mr Juwono also accused Singapore of stalling the DCA to avoid
implementing the Extradition Treaty (ET).
Indonesia had apparently forwarded a proposal regarding the terms
of Singapore's training in Indonesia, but Singapore had yet to
respond.
But in its response, MFA clarified that it was actually Indonesia
which refused to sign the subsequent (four implementing) agreements
in May, despite agreeing to do so in April.
MFA added that Indonesia also asked for substantive changes to the
documents.
Again, this was despite having repeatedly assured Singapore that it
would not depart from what was agreed upon.
MFA said Singapore has made a proposal to Indonesia on how to move
the process forward and is still waiting for Indonesia's reply. -
CNA/yy
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/286622/1/.html
Indonesia already make it clear Singapore is NOT WELCOMED to train
in Indonesia........yet our leaders don't seem to get it. They
still die die must cling on to the Indonesians. We got no sense of
shame ah?
I say to our Defence Minister : Forget the ungrateful Indons and
move on......
