Saifuddin says idea to ratify ICERD was not his | Malay Mail

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Saifuddin says idea to ratify ICERD was not his

Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah speaks during a press conference on the Emergency Ordinance in Putrajaya March 12, 2021. — Picture by Hari AnggaraKUALA LUMPUR, April 14 — Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah yesterday clarified that he was not the minister responsible for ratifying the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination .

“Ratification of the International Conventions on Human Rights is in the PH manifesto and was mentioned in the speech of the PM at the UN , but I was not the minister responsible for ICERD,” he said in his official twitter account last night. On Nov 23, 2018, Saifuddin, who was the Foreign Minister at the time, was quoted as saying that the government’s decision not to ratify ICERD was decided unanimously in a Cabinet meeting.

“Both the decision on ratification and later to withdraw from the Rome Statute, were made in the Cabinet meeting and I was the minister who was responsible for it,” he said.

 

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Of course it's not your idea, who are you kidding Pudin? Like other ideas that you spewed out in the past, it must've come from binister

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