A Swiss Slap In the Face For Malaysia?

 Indeed it is becoming true that the Social Media aka the Alternative Media aka the non-mainstream media are not only read more than the Mainstream Media but often the Social Media are setting the pace for news and discussion which is then being picked up by the Mainstream Media. 

The Mainstream Media not only in Malaysia but also internationally (BBC, CNN, Fox, Al-J----ra etc) have long ago lost their credibility. I am really getting tired of all the hysterical anti-Russia and anti-China crap that is being thrown out. 

A few days back I saw the Whatsapps and the comments on the Blogs about two countries Switzerland and Indonesia rejecting Malayia's nomination of our ambassadors to those countries. This is a real embarrasment for Malaysia because never before have countries that are considered friendly to us rejected two of our ambassadorial nominees.

The Star has picked up on one of these rejections by Switzerland which first appeared in the blogs:

According to The Star our nominees for ambassador are first approved and appointed by the Yang Di pertuan Agong. After that the ambassador nominee is presented to the foreign country (in this case Switzerland) for their approval. So when the Swiss Government rejected our nominee for ambassador it is equally an embarrasment   for the YDP Agong.

Lately the kaldais have resorted to dishing out ambassadorships to political nominees as rewards and favours. Sometimes even the slugs and toilet bowl scum get selected. If you are an ambassador in a foreign country your children's schooling, your car, driver, housing are all paid for by the Malaysian taxpayer. How nice. 

Actually this is not new. A previous ambassador to Indonesia was also a political nominee. The Indonesians did not reject him.

The foreign countries do not tell us the reasons why they rejected our nominees for ambassador so we can only speculate. But for a certainty the foreign countries depend on their own embassies here in Kuala Lumpur to do background checks on these nominees. So the acceptance and rejection of nominees is influenced by the feedback from their embassies here. 

In the future, to save time and embarrasment, perhaps Wisma Putra should check informally with the foreign embassies here if their countries would have any objections to Malaysia's ambassador nominees. A bit of back door diplomacy. 

The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of MMKtT.