A sampling of these two issues was provided by Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop during the UN Security Council (UNSC) ministerial debate on Iraq, chaired by US Secretary of State John Kerry, on Friday. Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman addressed the UNSC on that day too. Australia has been "actively affected" by the two issues, as one Australian official told Bernama on condition of anonymity. According to United States sources, there has been an informal "division of labour" drawn out between the US and Australia. While the US is coordinating with Arab countries and its traditional Western allies to form a coalition to combat the Islamic state menace, Australian interlocutors have started meeting counterparts from a number of Southeast Asian countries, particularly the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia to work out a strategy to counter their threat. About 40 Malaysians, including ex-ISA detainees, have gone to the war zone in Syria to fight where multiple factions are vying for supremacy. Source: Agencies
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