Report: China requests ‘friendly consultation’ with Malaysia over RM1b seizure from its gas pipeline projects
China’s foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the project was “carried out in accordance with the contract”.
(MMO) – Beijing believes its two multi billion-dollar gas pipeline projects in Malaysia being built by a state-owned Chinese company can be resolved through “friendly consultation”.
China’s foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the project — being built by a subsidiary of state energy giant China National Petroleum Corporation — was “carried out in accordance with the contract”, international newswire Associated Press reported today.
“For problems arising in cooperation, the two sides should properly resolve them through friendly consultation,” he was quoted as saying.
Geng stressed that the two countries enjoy a “long-term friendly cooperative relationship” and that China and Malaysia will be able to deepen their economic and trade ties.
