Day: November 12, 2019

Signing of the Cobbold Report at Knebworth House, the residence of Lord Cobbold, in London on June 21, 1962.  The members of the Cobbold Commision include (left to right) Sir David Watherston, Sir Anthony Abell (the third Governor of Sarawak), Lord Cobbold, Datuk Wong Pow Nee and Ghazali Shafie.  Standing at the back is I.E.

It was a sombre Ghazali Shafie with Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad on 8 May 1983 Ghazali, who returned to Wisma Putra as Foreign Minister in 1981, was a s the writer noted, “not the ebullient and gung-ho person we knew when he was our Secretary or Secretary-General”.

Ghazali Shafie, the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, welcoming Lt. Col. Ali Moertopo of Indonesia with a brotherly embrace at the Subang International Airport on 27 May 1966.  It was often the case that Ghazali, a civil servant, was more in contact with political and military leaders in Jakart, Manila and Bangkok

Prime Minister Tunku abdul Rahman bidding bon voyage to Dato Nik Ahmad Kamil who is leaving to take up his new post as the Malayan Ambassador to America on 18 February 1959.  With them is Ghazali, the acting Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs. (NST)

Tun Abdul Razak, the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Malaysia, has a discussion with Tun Thanat Khoman, Special Envoy of the National Executive Council of Thailand (right), Dato’ Hamzah Abu Samah (second from right), the Monoster of Youth, Sports and Culture, and Tan Sri Ghazali Shafie, the Monoster with Special Functions and Minister of