Malaysia will honour the water agreement with Singapore while seeking to restart negotiations on pricing, said Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah, who described discussions over the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) as the "immediate and urgent" concern between the two neighbours.
Datuk Saifuddin, who is due to visit Singapore next week for a meeting of Asean foreign ministers, waved away concerns about "turning off the taps", saying such a move "is definitely not in our mind".
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