Description:
Summary: "ASEAN should not have admitted Burma,
Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam into the organization in the
1990?s, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew told visiting EAP DAS
Christensen and the Ambassador October 16. Expressing his
scorn for Burma?s leaders, MM Lee called them "dense" and
"stupid." After discussing China?s influence over Burma, he
suggested that Indonesian President Yudhoyono, as a former
general, could potentially be an interlocutor with the
regime..."
Source/publisher:
US Embassy, Singapore, via Wikileaks
Date of Publication:
2007-10-19
Date of entry:
2010-12-24
Grouping:
- Individual Documents
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Language:
English