Despite the dissatisfaction and anger of Chinese families towards Malaysia over the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, its ambassador has assured that bilateral relations between both countries will not be affected.
Huang Huikang, the Chinese ambassador to Malaysia, said the Chinese government appreciated and was in gratitude to Malaysia for its efforts to locate the missing plane.
"We never said China is angry, we never said China is dissatisfied with the progress made so far," he told reporters at the Chinese embassy in Kuala Lumpur today.
Huang stressed that China was in fact looking forward to enhancing its ties with Malaysia and increase cooperation in many fields.
"This year, it is the 40th anniversary of China-Malaysia bilateral ties.
"Malaysia and China are family, good friends, partners and neighbours. We have joined together to form the largest search operations ever and will continue to work together until MH370 is found," he added.
This comes after harsh criticism from Chinese families who had demanded that the Malaysian government tell them the “truth” about the missing plane and return their relatives to them.
They also demanded that the government apologise for saying the plane which went missing on March 8, had “ended” its journey in the southern Indian Ocean.
The families were outraged over the announcement by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and staged a protest, maintaining that there was no "evidence" to back it up.
Huang downplayed the reactions, saying that the outrage and anger felt by Chinese families are a "natural and logical" reaction following the loss of their loved ones.
"So we should take the necessary steps to comfort, understand and help them."
"The daily press briefings by (acting transport minister) Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein showed that the Malaysian government has nothing to hide.
"The Chinese people will remember the enormous effort taken by Malaysia to cope with this incident," he added.
The ambassador also hit out at the Western media, whom he said, have published wrong and baseless allegations or stories which caused controversies and complicated the situation.
"It has also hurt the feelings of the next-of-kin of those on the plane. We object to these reports which we feel have tried to disrupt China-Malaysia ties.
"Any attempt to complicate the incident and tarnish our relationship with Malaysia will not succeed," he warned.
China and Malaysia, Huang reiterated, have formed a "very deep cooperation" after the incident and have dealt with it "side-by-side".
Flight MH370 went missing on March 8 shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.
Search efforts in the southern Indian Ocean have so far not turned up anything related to the aircraft. -TMI
Despite the dissatisfaction and anger of Chinese families towards Malaysia over the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, its ambassador has assured that bilateral relations between both countries will not be affected.
Huang Huikang, the Chinese ambassador to Malaysia, said the Chinese government appreciated and was in gratitude to Malaysia for its efforts to locate the missing plane.
"We never said China is angry, we never said China is dissatisfied with the progress made so far," he told reporters at the Chinese embassy in Kuala Lumpur today.
Huang stressed that China was in fact looking forward to enhancing its ties with Malaysia and increase cooperation in many fields.
"This year, it is the 40th anniversary of China-Malaysia bilateral ties.
"Malaysia and China are family, good friends, partners and neighbours. We have joined together to form the largest search operations ever and will continue to work together until MH370 is found," he added.
This comes after harsh criticism from Chinese families who had demanded that the Malaysian government tell them the “truth” about the missing plane and return their relatives to them.
They also demanded that the government apologise for saying the plane which went missing on March 8, had “ended” its journey in the southern Indian Ocean.
The families were outraged over the announcement by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and staged a protest, maintaining that there was no "evidence" to back it up.
Huang downplayed the reactions, saying that the outrage and anger felt by Chinese families are a "natural and logical" reaction following the loss of their loved ones.
"So we should take the necessary steps to comfort, understand and help them."
"The daily press briefings by (acting transport minister) Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein showed that the Malaysian government has nothing to hide.
"The Chinese people will remember the enormous effort taken by Malaysia to cope with this incident," he added.
The ambassador also hit out at the Western media, whom he said, have published wrong and baseless allegations or stories which caused controversies and complicated the situation.
"It has also hurt the feelings of the next-of-kin of those on the plane. We object to these reports which we feel have tried to disrupt China-Malaysia ties.
"Any attempt to complicate the incident and tarnish our relationship with Malaysia will not succeed," he warned.
China and Malaysia, Huang reiterated, have formed a "very deep cooperation" after the incident and have dealt with it "side-by-side".
Flight MH370 went missing on March 8 shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing.
Search efforts in the southern Indian Ocean have so far not turned up anything related to the aircraft. -TMI
