VII. The Contemporary Period, 1945–2000 > F. South and Southeast Asia, 1945–2000 > 2. Southeast Asia, 1941–2000 > c. The Malay Archipelago and Peninsular Malaysia > 1. Malaysia and Singapore > 1964, Feb. 5–10
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1964, Feb. 5–10
 
The foreign ministers of the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia conferred in Thailand on the Malaysian situation. On Feb. 6 they advised UN Secretary-General U Thant that they had asked Thailand to police a cease-fire along the Malaysian-Indonesian border.  1
 
Feb. 17
 
Indonesia's Foreign Minister Subandrio declared that Indonesian guerrillas, who had infiltrated into the Malaysian territories of Saba and Sarawak, would not be withdrawn until the Malaysian question was settled. Efforts to reach a settlement continued without success, while guerrilla warfare went on.  2
 
June 20
 
The Tokyo “summit conference” of Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines broke up without result, and renewed Indonesian guerrilla attacks in Sarawak followed.  3
 
July, Sept
 
Repeated outbreaks of hostilities in Singapore between the Chinese and the Malays.  4
 
Aug.–Sept
 
Indonesian landings and paratrooper attacks on the coast of mainland Malaysia. These were successfully contained by Malaysian troops, assisted by British, Australian, and New Zealander contingents. These raids diminished in the course of 1965 as the revolution developed in Indonesia.  5
 
 
 
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