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SINGAPORE, July 30: United States (US) Secretary of State Madeleine Albright swept aside Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad’s criticisms of the West, and said she did not think he spoke for his region.
“I think that Dr Mahathir is a case of his own,” she told reporters yesterday after major regional meetings in Kuala Lumpur which Mahathir opened with an attack on “unscrupulous” Western currency speculators.
The Malaysian Prime Minister also renewed his criticisms on the US during the meeting, to some applause from around South and South-East Asia, where he is often regarded as a spokesman for the region.
“He has his views that he stated rather harshly, I felt,” Albright said. “They are not reflected, as far as I can see, in the general tenor of the younger generation of leadership of the ASEAN countries,” Albright said.
