The incident of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 should not affect any aspect of thefriendly relationship between Malaysia and China, said Majid Ahmad Khan, formerMalaysian ambassador to China.
In an interview with Xinhua in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, Majid said "in this time ofdifficulties, both our countries, our authorities are working very closely together. I thinkthrough working together our relationship after this incident will be much stronger."
"As you know, Malaysia and China have ancient ties and we have cooperated very closelyin all fields. We have very strong exchanges both at government to government and peopleto people levels," he said.
Majid, who is also president of the Malaysia-China Friendship Association, said, "we shouldlook into the future. This is just like families. When families actually have tragedies amongthemselves, they are close together, they will have more understanding of each other. So Iam confident that Malaysia and China relations will actually be much stronger after thisincident. "
Asked to comment on what the Malaysian government has done in dealing with themissing flight incident, he said, "The government, to my mind, has not hidden anything. Ofcourse, there are limitations because Malaysia is a small country, it does not have enoughexpertise or resources."
"In the search operation , Malaysia is supported by 26 countries and even with this multi-national effort, Malaysia has not been able to be very successful. So from here we can seethe complexity of this incident," he added.
Commenting on China's participation in the search operation, Majid said that from the verybeginning, the Chinese government has devoted asset, resources and personnel insupporting the rescue and research efforts."
"The Chinese authorities from the day one has extended full cooperation andunderstanding on this issue," he said.
