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Singapore Won’t Allow Indonesian Warship to Enter Ports, Ng Says

: Feb 24, 2014 - : 11:17 pm

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Singapore will bar an Indonesian warship named after marines who bombed a building on the island in 1965 from calling at its ports and naval bases or taking part in joint military exercises, said Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen.

“The naming of this ship will have consequences on bilateral relations,” Ng said in Parliament tuesday, February 18. “Already, suspicions and resentments have heightened on both sides, setting back many decades of relationship-building and defense ties.”

Indonesia’s top army officials skipped the Singapore Airshow earlier this month as tensions escalated between the two nations after Indonesia stood by its decision to name the warship Usman-Harun. Indonesia has assured Singapore that no ill will or malice was intended, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said in an interview with Channel NewsAsia last week.

Singapore’s Minister of Foreign Affairs K. Shanmugam today said he took Natalegawa at his word, and the Indonesian marines are not being honored for killing Singaporeans.

“We have a strong bilateral relationship and we also cooperate closely in Asean, where our interests converge on many issues,” Shanmugam told Parliament, referring to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. “We therefore hope that it will be possible for us to maintain and strengthen this friendship and cooperation.”

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