Malaysia said on Wednesday it was weighing legal action after Norway blocked the export of missiles ordered for its navy, in a last-minute decision that has dealt a fresh blow to one of the country\u2019s most troubled defence projects.<\/p>\n
The row centres on the Naval Strike Missile, ordered from Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace for Malaysia\u2019s long-delayed littoral combat ship programme.<\/p>\n
Government spokesman Fahmi Fadzil said Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim had raised the matter with his Norwegian counterpart Jonas Gahr Stoere on Tuesday, after Oslo\u2019s decision stopped the Norwegian company from completing delivery of the missiles as agreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Malaysian government is deeply disappointed by the Norwegian government\u2019s action in not approving the export permit for the procurement of a missile series at the last minute,\u201d Fahmi told a weekly press conference after a cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n
He said the contract was signed in 2018 and carried out \u201cwithout any issue\u201d, with payments made according to schedule.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Malaysian government cannot accept at all the reasons given by the Norwegian government,\u201d Fahmi said, adding that Putrajaya was pursuing the matter through diplomatic channels and considering \u201cappropriate follow-up action from a legal standpoint\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlanning and implementing the national defence plan is a strategic interest that cannot be compromised under any circumstances,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malaysia said on Wednesday it was weighing legal action after Norway blocked the export of missiles ordered for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[43845,33774,43844,43848,33712,43843,157,156,43847,43846],"class_list":{"0":"post-82197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oslo","8":"tag-anwar-ibrahim","9":"tag-jonas-gahr-stoere","10":"tag-kd-jebat","11":"tag-kongsberg-defence-and-aerospace","12":"tag-malaysia","13":"tag-naval-strike-missile","14":"tag-norway","15":"tag-oslo","16":"tag-putrajaya","17":"tag-royal-malaysian-navy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116571872218783898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}