KUALA LUMPUR: Attorney-General Tommy Thomas today revealed that his two immediate predecessors refused to implement the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court despite the then Barisan Nasional government giving the green light.
“I am surprised. I did not know that as AG, I can refuse to act on the instruction of the client ,” he said at a public forum on The Rome Statute Pull-Out: Controversies and the Implication — Where Do We Go From Here? Noor Farida Ariffin, who was the department head in 2011, presented the instrument to accession of the statute to the Cabinet under former prime minister Najib Razak and government agencies.
A month later, Thomas said then law minister Nazri Aziz announced Malaysia’s readiness to be part of the ICC at an international conference in Kampala, Uganda “Critically, on March 18, 2011, the Cabinet resolved to ask Wisma Putra to implement the statute,” he said.He said records also revealed that on Aug 5, 2015, the Cabinet again instructed the AGC to prepare another paper to ratify the convention.
Thomas, who was appointed AG on June 2 last yer, said he advised the PH government to ratify the treaty and also educate the public.
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