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Jul

Kenyataan Media SUA Berhubung Tuduhan Bank Malaysia Terbabit di Dalam Transaksi Penjualan Senjata Oleh Korea Utara

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Categories: Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa and Malaysia

—Kenyataan Media Untuk Edaran Segera—

5hb Julai 2009

Parti Keadilan Rakyat memandang serius perkembangan mutkahir di Laut Timur. Korea Utara telah pun melancarkan 7 peluru berpandunya ke arah bahagian pantai timur negaranya. Tindakan ini jelas menyalahi resolusi 1874 Majlis Keselamatan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu yang berusaha mengendurkan ketegangan di rantau itu. Komuniti antarabangsa melahirkan rasa kesal dan mengecam keras pelancaran peluru berpandu tersebut.

Resolusi 1874 yang diluluskan pada 12hb Jun 2009 itu mengharamkan sebarang ekspot senjata oleh Korea Utara. Langkah ini bertujuan menyekat Korea Utara dari menggunakan dana hasil penjualan senjata bagi pembangunan program senjata nuklearnya. Makanya amatlah penting resolusi ini dipatuhi dengan kerjasama komuniti antarabangsa demi mewujudkan keamanan berkekalan, bukan sahaja di rantau Timur Jauh, bahkan juga di seluruh Asia.

Oleh itu adalah mengejutkan apabila beberapa laporan akhbar dari Korea Selatan mengaitkan bank di Malaysia digunakan untuk transaksi pembayaran penjualan senjata dari Korea Utara ke Myanmar. Tambah membimbangkan apabila rombongan khas perlaksanaan resolusi 1874 dipatuhi yang diketuai Phillip Goldberg, dijadualkan ke Malaysia, bertujuan memastikan negara ini mematuhi perlaksanaan resolusi tersebut. Sekiranya benar tuduhan yang dilaporkan akhbar terbabit (Korea Herald dan Korea Times), kita merasa kesal dengan kecuaian kementerian dalam negeri dan regulasi kewangan negara.

Keadilan menekankan isu keselamatan dan kedaulatan negara tidak boleh dipandang remeh. Kerajaan mestilah bersikap telus serta bertanggungjawab, terutamanya apabila menangani isu sebegini. Kenyataan media yang dikeluarkan oleh Pejabat Setiausaha Akhbar Rumah Putih bertarikh 26 Jun 2009 menyatakan antara butir penting perbualan Presiden Obama dan Dato’ Seri Najib ialah memastikan perlaksanaan resolusi 1874 dipatuhi. Ini jelas bercanggah dengan kenyataan Perdana Menteri Malaysia tersebut kepada media dan rakyat Malaysia berhubung perbualan telefon beliau dengan Presiden Amerika Syarikat itu. Dato’ Seri Najib sewajarnya menyampaikan maklumat yang tepat kepada rakyat. Kita bimbang sekiranya terbukti tuduhan bank di Malaysia terbabit di dalam transaksi penjualan senjata oleh Korea Utara, negara ini akan dikenakan tindakan keras oleh Majlis Keselamatan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu sepertimana yang nyaris dikenakan apabila syarikat Scomi Precision Engineering dikatakan terlibat di dalam menghasilkan komponen senjata nuklear.

SALEHUDDIN HASHIM
SETIAUSAHA AGUNG
PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT

— MEDIA STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE —

5 July 2009

Parti Keadilan Rakyat is gravely concerned with the latest developments in the East Sea – North Korea has launched 7 guided missiles off the country’s east coast. This action is clearly a violation of Resolution 1874 of the United Nations Security Council, which is attempting to reduce the tension in the region. The international community has expressed regret and strongly condemns the launch of those guided missiles.

Resolution 1874, which was passed on 12 June 2009, prohibits the export of any weapons by North Korea. This step was taken to stop North Korea from using the proceeds of sales of weapons to develop nuclear weapons. Therefore, the enforcement of this resolution, with the co-operation of the international community, is very important to establish lasting peace, not only in the East Asian region but throughout Asia.

Hence, it is very shocking when several news reports from South Korea are linking Malaysian banks with payment transactions for the sale of weapons from North Korea to Myanmar. It is even more disturbing to note that a special mission for the enforcement of Resolution 1874, headed by Phillip Goldberg, is scheduled to arrive in Malaysia, to ensure our nation’s compliance with the said resolution. If the allegations reported in the relevant newspapers (Korea Herald and Korea Times) are true, then it must be said that the Home Ministry’s negligence and our nation’s financial regulations is very disappointing.

KEADILAN emphasizes that issues of security and national sovereignty must not be taken lightly. The government must be transparent and responsible, especially when dealing with such issues. According to the media statement released by the White House Press Secretary dated 26 June 2009, amongst other important matters, President Obama and Datuk Seri Najib discussed the enforcement of Resolution 1874. This clearly contradicts the Prime Minister’s statement to the media and the people of Malaysia regarding his conversation with the American President. Datuk Seri Najib should not distort the facts or hide them from the people. We are highly concerned if it is proven that Malaysian banks are involved in the arms sales transactions by North Korea, our country will be subject to serious measures by the Security Council of the United Nations, as it so nearly happened when the Malaysian company, Scomi Precision Engineering, was said to be involved in the production of components for nuclear weapons.

SALEHUDDIN HASHIM

SECRETARY GENERAL

PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT

Jul

U.S. North Korea sanctions team to visit Malaysia

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Categories: Antarabangsa, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Malaysia and Sidenotes

From The Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. envoy coordinating financial, arms and other sanctions against North Korea under a recent U.N. resolution will visit Malaysia on Sunday after a trip to China, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.

U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg, the U.S. coordinator for the implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874, has arrived in Beijing for talks with Chinese officials on Thursday and Friday on enforcing U.N. sanctions, it added.

The resolution, which passed June 12, bans the export of all weapons by North Korea — which Washington says will cut off a significant source of funds for Pyongyang. It also bans all financial transactions with North Korea that could contribute to its nuclear or ballistic missile programs.

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Jul

North Korea Uses Malaysian Bank for Weapons Payment

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Categories: Antarabangsa, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Malaysia and Sidenotes

The Korea Times

The transaction of North Korea’s suspected shipment of weapons to Myanmar, currently being carried on a freighter tracked by the U.S. Navy, was planned to be paid through a bank in Malaysia and the visit by a U.S. envoy to Malaysia this weekend will focus on ways to cut off the payment transaction, Yonhap reported Saturday citing an unnamed “high-level” source.

“Kim Jong-il will have a hard time collecting his money,” the high-level source said, speaking strictly on condition of anonymity. The source declined to identify the bank due to diplomatic concerns.

Philip Goldberg, the U.S. coordinator for the implementation of a U.N. Security Council resolution that punishes North Korea for its May 25 nuclear test, is scheduled to arrive in Malaysia on Sunday.

The visit comes after the White House said late last month that U.S. President Barack Obama discussed North Korea and financial regulations with Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razakon by phone.

It also comes as North Korea’s Kang Nam freighter is apparently returning home after being tracked by a U.S. Navy destroyer that suspects it is carrying cargo banned under the resolution.

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Jul

N.K. using Malaysian bank to deal weapons with Myanmar

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Categories: Antarabangsa, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Malaysia and Sidenotes

From The Korea Herald

North Korea sought payment through a bank in Malaysia for its suspected shipment of weapons to Myanmar that is being carried on a freighter tracked by the U.S. Navy, a source said Saturday, according to Yonhap News.

The visit by a U.S. envoy to Malaysia this weekend will focus on ways to cut off the payment transaction for the cargo from the bank in Malaysia to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, the source said.

“Kim will have a hard time collecting his money,” the high-level source said, speaking strictly on condition of anonymity. The source declined to identify the bank due to diplomatic concerns.

Philip Goldberg, the U.S. coordinator for the implementation of a U.N. Security Council resolution that punishes North Korea for its May 25 nuclear test, is scheduled to arrive in Malaysia on Sunday.

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Jul

Malaysia’s Anwar confident opposition will survive

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Categories: Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Pakatan Rakyat and Sidenotes

From AFP

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who faces trial this month on sodomy charges, said his Pakatan Rakyat alliance would survive even if he is convicted and jailed.

Anwar has rejected the allegations levelled by a 23-year-old former aide as a conspiracy to derail his plan to topple the government.

He was found guilty of separate sodomy and corruption charges a decade ago in a case widely seen as politically motivated. In 2004 the sodomy conviction was overturned, allowing Anwar to go free after six years in jail.

“There is no question of the Pakatan Rakyat continuing, surviving. It will continue to defend the rights of the people and challenge the government, gaining strength from any conviction made against me,” Anwar told AFP.

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Jun

Seharian Suntuk Di Antara Parlimen Dan Mahkamah

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Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Kewangan, Malaysia and Pakatan Rakyat

(video ehsan malaysiakinitv)
Hari ini saya sekali lagi ke mahkamah rayuan pada sebelah petangnya berhubung keputusan pemindahan kes saya dari mahkamah sesyen ke mahkamah tinggi. Akhirnya selepas hampir 2 jam dibelenggu kesejukan, hakim memutuskan untuk menyambung mendengar merit hujah dari kedua belah pihak pada jam 10.15pagi keesokan harinya. Mujurlah ada Azizah dan anak-anak menemani sepanjang prosiding.

Oleh kerana menghadiri sesi mahkamah, makanya saya terlepas untuk menyertai perbahasan usul Dr Lee Boon Chye berkenaan wabak H1N1. Manakala usul tergempar yang saya kemukakan berkenaan kewajaran menimbang semula laluan yang dicadangakan oleh kerajaan pusat untuk projek jambatan kedua Pulau Pinang, di bawah peraturan 18(1) telah ditolak untuk dibahaskan.

Akan tetapi saya berpeluang membangkitkan persoalan tersebut pada sidang media sekitar jam 12 tengahari tadi. Saya berkongsi bersama warga media akan maklumat industri yang diperolehi, terutamanya berhubung laluan alternatif projek jambatan kedua yang mampu menjimatkan sehingga RM 4 billion dana awam. Nampaknya isu pokok bagi memacu pertumbuhan serta upaya memulihkan ekonomi negara masih diabaikan kerajaan. Selagi isu tadbir urus yang baik dan pertanggungjawaban tidak ditangani, keyakinan rakyat dan pelabur hanya akan terhakis dari hari ke hari.

Kerana itu pengumuman terbaru Dato’ Najib untuk melonggarkan peraturan ekuiti demi menarik pelaburan asing seumpama mencurah air ke daun keladi. Kita mengakui adanya usaha untuk memulihkan negara dari kemelesetan, namun ketiadaan ekonomi manusiawi dan program menyeluruh, hanya menyebabkan ketidakadilan sosial.

Pada ketika kita menyedari peranan kuasa pasaran, tidak sepatutnya ianya menjadi alasan buat kerajaan goyang kaki memejam sebelah mata akan keperitan rakyat mengharungi kesusahan. Agenda Ekonomi Malaysia jelas mempertahankan peran pasaran memacu pertumbuhan di samping meletakkan tanggungjawab besar kepada kerajaan membantu rakyat yang kesusahan tanpa mengira batas kaum.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

Jun

Usul Membahaskan Laluan Alternatif Projek Jambatan Pulau Pinang ke 2

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Categories: Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Kewangan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Persidangan and Politik

30 Jun 2009

–Kenyataan Media–

Pada hari ini saya telah mengusulkan supaya mesyuarat Dewan Rakyat ditangguhkan untuk membincangkan perkara tertentu, berkepentingan ramai dan perlu disegerakan.

Saya mencadangkan:

“Bahawa Dewan Rakyat membincangkan cadangan projek pembinaan Jambatan Kedua Pulau Pinang memandangkan kos projek tersebut adalah terlalu tinggi berbanding cadangan laluan alternatif yang mampu menjimatkan RM4 billion dana awam.”

Pada Ogos 2006 Kerajaan Persekutuan mengumumkan projek pembinaan Jambatan Kedua Pulau Pinang di bawah Rancangan Malaysia Ke9 dan upacara perasmian pecah tanah telah disempurnakan pada 12 November 2006 [oleh Perdana Menteri ketika itu YAB Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Ia dibina oleh usahasama China Harbour Engineering Co Ltd dan UEM. Pembinaannya menggunakan laluan selatan dengan jarak 24km dengan kos keseluruhannya melibatkan RM12 billion dan dijangka siap pada pertengahan 2012.

Menurut sumber industri, saya difahamkan bahawa projek yang sedia ada ini tidak wajar diteruskan, kerana ianya melibatkan kos pembinaan yang terlalu tinggi. Saya difahamkan juga bahawa adalah lebih wajar untuk membina projek Jambatan Kedua Pulau Pinang ini dengan menggunakan laluan alternatif melalui laluan utara dengan jarak 10Km yang lebih dekat dengan melibatkan anggaran kos keseluruhan yang lebih rendah berjumlah antara RM7 hingga RM8 billion.

Berbanding dengan projek yang sedia ada, amat jelas bahawa cadangan projek laluan alternatif bagi membina Jambatan Kedua Pulau Pinang berupaya menjimatkan RM4 billion dana awam.

Berikutan itu, saya mencadangkan supaya Dewan Rakyat membincangkan perkara ini bagi membolehkan rakyat mendapat gambaran sebenar mengenai permasalahan dan alasan-alasan kukuh mengapa cadangan laluan alternatif bagi pembinaan Jambatan Kedua Pulau Pinang tidak boleh dipertimbangkan meskipun ianya berupaya menyelamatkan RM4 billion wang rakyat.

Atas perkara yang tertentu ini yang melibatkan kepentingan rakyat umum yang perlu disegerakan, saya telah memohon secara rasmi kepada Yang di-Pertua Dewan Rakyat supaya usul ini dibincangkan pada hari ini.

Sekian.

ANWAR BIN IBRAHIM

KETUA PEMBANGKANG DEWAN RAKYAT

AHLI PARLIMEN PERMATANG PAUH

Jun

Najib’s crooning our tune now, crows Anwar

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Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Malaysia, Pakatan Rakyat and Sidenotes

From The Malaysian Insider
By Adib Zalkapli

PETALING JAYA, June 28 – Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today questioned the sincerity of the prime minister in announcing a new merit-based scholarship programme obviously aimed at winning back Chinese voter support from Pakatan Rakyat (PR).

“Last time, when I said it, I was called a Chinese agent. Now that Najib has said it what are you going to call him? Is he now a Chinese agent and traitor to the Malays?” said Anwar sarcastically when asked today about the new scholarships to be based purely on merit.

The Opposition Leader has been frequently labelled a “traitor” and “Chinese agent” by Umno leaders since he launched PR’s reform agenda.

Anwar’s PR has successfully used its Ketuanan Rakyat, or supremacy of the people, slogan to differentiate itself from Umno’s Ketuanan Melayu, or supremacy of the Malays, rallying cry which has caused concern even among non-Malay Barisan Nasional (BN) parties.

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Jun

Ucaptama DSAI: Lintas Langsung Dari Studio TV Antara

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Categories: Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Islam, Isu Semasa, Mahkamah, Malaysia and Pakatan Rakyat

Speech by Anwar Ibrahim at “Business Opportunities in the Muslim World” Conference in Washington DC, June 26 2009.

Ladies and Gentleman, respected guests, friends and colleagues from the United States and throughout the Muslim world.
I must apologize to the organizers, US Chamber of Commerce, CIPE, US Muslim World Engagement Project and to the guests attending today that I cannot be with you in person.
I have fond memories of the time I spent in Washington DC. This visit would have offered a much anticipated opportunity to visit friends and colleagues. However, as you may know, I have a rather difficult time dealing with the Malaysian Courts. No matter how we demonstrate their inadequacies in trying to prosecute against me they remain relentless in their resolve to inconvenience me. Consequently, I must make a series of previously unscheduled appearances in Court this week.
The stakes are high, so high indeed that we are once again witnessing the emasculation of the judiciary at the hands of the Executive. It is clear that the strategy is to have me incarcerated in order to stem the tide for greater freedom and democracy but I can say for sure that they are mistaken.
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Jun

BATAL KE WASHINGTON: 1 Julai Anwar hadir ke Mahkamah.

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Categories: Antarabangsa, Anwar, Asia Tenggara, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Politik and Program

June 26, 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

ANWAR IBRAHIM’S VISIT TO WASHINGTON DC FOR KEYNOTE ADDRESS ON US MUSLIM WORLD BUSINESS COOPERATION HAMPERED BY MALAYSIAN COURTS

The unprecedented actions taken by the Malaysian courts to expedite the beginning of Anwar Ibrahim’s trial have forced him to abandon his plans to travel to Washington DC this month. He will deliver his already scheduled keynote address at the “Business Opportunities in the Muslim World” conference in Washington DC on June 26th at 12:00 PM EST via live video teleconference from Kuala Lumpur.

The non-cooperation of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which has impeded the preparation of the best defense that Mr. Ibrahim is lawfully entitled to, and the insistence of the Malaysian courts to begin his trial in early July despite the repeated requests by his lawyers for access to basic discovery items, requires Mr. Ibrahim be present in the Kuala Lumpur High Court to attend to his various applications including to quash the charges leveled against him. This reprehensible conduct by the Prosecutors has been affirmed by Anwar’s lawyer S N Nair in his statement issued by his office on 10th June 2009 which amongst others, has affirmed that Anwar will not get a fair trial in the Malaysian courts.

The actions of the Courts to expedite the hearing of Mr. Ibrahim’s various preliminary motions, including the pending appeal to the Court of Appeal, appear unprecedented. These applications, including a request for documents in possession of the Public prosecutor that are favorable to Mr. Ibrahim as well as an application to quash the charges altogether, under normal circumstances will take some time for the Courts to consider.

We reiterate that the Court’s insistence on preferring a charge of sodomy that contravenes medical records indicates malicious intent, that the charges are politically motivated and that this trial would be a travesty of justice akin to what Anwar Ibrahim faced in 1998-1999.

OFFICE OF ANWAR IBRAHIM

Jun

Keynote Adress “Business Opportunities in the Muslim World”

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Categories: Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Islam, Isu Semasa and Pakatan Rakyat

Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim will deliver a keynote address at the conference entitled “Business Opportunities in the Muslim World” scheduled to take place in Washington DC on June 26^th.

The conference takes place following US President Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo on June 4^th in which President Obama stated an intention to promote entrepreneurship and deepen ties between business leaders, foundations and social entrepreneurs in the United States and Muslim communities around the world. Representatives from Turkey, Jordan and Egypt are among those scheduled to speak at the conference on a variety of topics including competitive labour practices and high-growth sectors in Muslim countries.

The conference is co-hosted by the US-Muslim World Engagement Project, the Center for International Private Enterprise and the US Chamber of Commerce.

Jun

Petronas again rejects Najib’s bid to put aide on board

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Categories: Ekonomi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Media and Sidenotes

KUALA LUMPUR, June 26 – Board members of Petroliam Nasional (Petronas) stood their ground this week and have politely turned down a bid by Prime Minister Najib Razak to admit a key political aide as a director of the national oil corporation.

Government officials close to the situation told The Straits Times that the board in a meeting on Wednesday had reaffirmed its decision a month previous not to admit Omar Mustapha as a director because he had defaulted on his scholarship loan agreement with Petronas two decades earlier.

The board, which was directed by Datuk Seri Najib to reconsider its decision last month over Omar’s proposed appointment, also decided it would send a delegation to brief the Prime Minister on the matter in the coming days.

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