Further, Singapore's arrangements for the visit were, in the words of one diplomat long stationed in Singapore, "perhaps the only case in the whole world" of such treatment accorded visitors from an unrecognized nation.
星方安排，禮隆而情重然而在沒有邦交、又有中共壓力的情況之下，新加坡所花費的心思，動員的人力、物力，據一位長駐星國的外交官表示，「可能是全世界僅見的例子。」