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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Clinton talks see Malaysia vow fair trial for Anwar AFP - Wednesday, November 3 Send IM Story Print Clinton talks see Malaysia vow fair trial for Anwar KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - – Malaysia pledged Tuesday after talks with visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will get a fair trial on sodomy charges. Clinton is in Malaysia to cultivate stronger ties with the moderate Muslim-majority nation, but nevertheless renewed US calls for the politically explosive charges to be handled "fairly and transparently". Speaking at a joint press conference after discussing the case with Clinton, Foreign Minister Anifah Aman denied Anwar's claim that charges are a conspiracy aimed at neutralising the threat he poses to the ruling coalition. "It is in my interest and our interests to make sure Anwar gets a fair trial because if there is such a thing as political persecution, if it can happen to Anwar, it can happen to all of us," Anifah said. "Being an open trial I think the world will be able to judge the outcome," he said of the charges that could see Anwar jailed for up to 20 years. Anwar, a former deputy premier who was sacked and jailed on separate sex and corruption counts a decade ago that were widely seen as politically motivated, says he is the victim of another plot after stunning 2008 electoral gains. On a visit to Washington in June, he welcomed the attention being paid to Malaysia by President Barack Obama but said the US needed to be careful not to be "condoning the excesses" of Prime Minister Najib Razak's government. Anwar had been expected to meet Clinton during her visit, but US officials said Tuesday that there were no plans for talks. However, Clinton noted that the US "believes it is important for all aspects of the case to be conducted fairly and transparently and in a way that increases confidence in the rule of law in Malaysia." Anwar spent six years in jail on the original sodomy and corruption allegations until the sex conviction was quashed in 2004. Sodomy, even among consenting adults, is illegal in Malaysia. His new trial, on allegations of illicit relations with a young male aide, opened in February but has been punctuated by lengthy delays and has made little progress. Malaysia is the fifth stop on an Asia tour that has taken Clinton to Guam, Vietnam, China and Cambodia. She is still to visit Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Australia and American Samoa. The trip is part of Washington's attempts to re-engage with Southeast Asia, which the previous George W. Bush administration is accused of ignoring, even as China worked methodically to build closer ties in the region. Clinton praised Malaysia's efforts to avoid religious rifts among its population -- which takes in the dominant Muslim Malays as well as ethnic Chinese and Indian communities. "Malaysia, both by geography, dynamism, the role that Islam plays, which is a role that is not divisive as it is in some parts of the world, has a real opportunity to be a thought leader in a number of significant areas," she said. Clinton said the US "wholeheartedly endorsed" Najib's efforts to promote religious moderation and said it was "eager to support him and other leaders who take up this call to promote interfaith dialogue". After serious ethnic violence in Malaysia in 1969, great efforts have been made to avoid a repeat of the bloodshed. As part of the Obama administration's bid to reach out to Muslims, Clinton also addressed an Islamic university forum, fielding questions about US foreign policy in a programme broadcast on Malaysian television. She defended the US role in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, in a dialogue that is part of so-called public diplomacy where she strives to make America's case before a larger audience than the usual leaders and diplomats. 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