S'pore patriarch Lee to visit KL

Sat, 29 Jul 2000 | Source: REUTERS

BANGKOK (Reuters): Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew will make his first visit to Malaysia in 10 years, probably next month, Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said on Friday.

Syed Hamid said in an interview the trip by Lee, prime minister of Singapore for 31 years until 1990, would be informal.

Lee, who led Singapore to independence, first ran the tiny city-state during the late 1950s and early 1960s at a time when it was united with Malaysia in a federation.

But the two neighbors, linked by a causeway, split in 1965 and have had strained relations in recent years.

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