SIBU: Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) today expressed its dissatisfaction with the composition of the Pemandu Committee to review and streamline the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) which it said was unreasonable.
Its president Tan Sri Dr James Jemut Masing said the composition of the committee should be equal, for instance, five members each from ‘Malaya’, Sarawak and Sabah which form Malaysia.
In his speech to PRS representatives from throughout the country at the party’s Extra-Ordinary Delegates Conference, Masing said the committee should not be chaired by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, and someone else should take his place.
On Oct 10, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Liew View Keong announced the names of 16 members of the Pemandu Committee which is led by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to review and streamline the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).
Those on the committee are Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal, Sarawak Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg, Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng, Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali, Communication and Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo.
Foreign Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, Works Minister Baru Bian, Minister of International Trade and Industry Darell Leiking, Transport Minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook, Chief Secretary to the Government Datuk Seri Dr Ismail Bakar, Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Datuk David Wong Dak Wah, Attorney-General Tommy Thomas, Universiti Malaya Law Professor Prof Emeritus Datuk Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi, Sabah Attorney-General Zaleha Rose Pandin and Sarawak Attorney-General Datuk Talat Mahmood Abdul Rashid. — Bernama
