TRUMP STILL SINGING PRAISE OF ANWAR, MALAYSIA ON ROLE IN THAILAND-CAMBODIA CONFLICT AT APEC PLATFORM

From Nor Baizura Basri

GYEONGJU (South Korea), Oct 29 (Bernama) -- United States President Donald Trump is not over with his praises on Malaysia's leadership under the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim over the country's successful role, which led to the landmark signing of the Cambodia-Thailand peace deal, last week.

Describing the situation of the conflict as "too hot with bullets flying all over the place" at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) platform today, he said with the help of Malaysia, the peace deal was successfully signed between the two countries at the sidelines of the 47th ASEAN Summit and related meetings held in Kuala Lumpur last Sunday.

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"And after about two days, we ended up with the help of Malaysia. Malaysia was like a mediator. We used beautiful facilities in Malaysia.

"Malaysia was fantastic and they helped in implement it (the signing). Prime Minister was great, great guy. Just left him and within two days, we signed the deal. The two people (Thailand and Cambodia) came in, they were like best friends. It was a beautiful thing to see, we save probably millions of lives," he said in his speech during the APEC CEO Summit Korea 2025 here today. 

The peace deal which is known as Kuala Lumpur Peace Accord was signed here by Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, with Trump and Anwar who then signed as witnesses.

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Trump is currently on his last leg of his Asia tour after visiting Malaysia and Japan. He is expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping tomorrow with tariff issues discussion on the table ahead of the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting (AELM) which will start this Friday.

Anwar, who is also the Finance Minister, is leading the Malaysian delegation to the AELM and is expected to arrive here tomorrow.

-- BERNAMA