Foreign Minister George Yeo informed the House that at a cocktail, he could sense palpably the embarassment and awkwardness felt by the EU Diplomats over the case of the Romanian bastard Silviu Ionescu.
He went further to say "So even though this is strictly speaking a bilateral matter, there is no doubt that the EU diplomats and the EU governments feel that they have an interest in seeing this case satisfactorily resolved and justice properly served."
Singaporeans were outraged by the behaviour of this Romanian pig and his subsequent allegation that this has all been a set up to frame him. We have heard enough of how our security officers were "helpless" in letting him go scot free 3 days after the accident occurred.
What GY said is very interesting. If the EU diplomat is truly embarassed as expressed by GY, it goes to show that there is an common identity amongst the EU members which binds them as one. It is akin to a brother feeling very awkward for some unwarranted crimes committed by his other sibling. Say if any diplomats from countries in ASEAN were to commit the same offence, will diplomats from the regional grouping feel the same way as what this EU diplomat (of Spanish origin) had reportedly felt?
I wonder..... and I am more inclined to believe we somehow will not. The basis of how countries from ASEAN operate is one of you-mind-your-own-biz, we don't interfere with each others affair.
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