Lines of communication especially important between adversaries, says Ng Eng Hen at ShangriLaDialogue SLD23
Dr Ng noted. They also sat across from each other at Saturday’s lunch and heard each other speak.
Dr Ng said that from his independent conversations with each counterpart, both sides want to resume dialogue and are working towards that objective. “Nobody has said that ‘I don’t want to talk’. They might have said that the preconditions have not been satisfied, but that’s very different,” he said.
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