Malaysia for first time includes a DAP and 2 PKR reps in delegation to General Assembly
They are Wee Choo Keong and Zulkifli Nordin from Parti Keadilan Rakyat, and Chong Chieng Jen from DAP. Wee is Wangsa Maju MP, Zulkifli the Kulim-Bandar Baharu MP and Chong is Bandar Kuching MP.
They will be in New York for two weeks from next week for the 64th session of the General Assembly, which started on Sept 15. Debates will go on till end of this month.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak won’t be attending the assembly. The Malaysian delegation will be led by Foreign Affairs Minister Datuk Anifah Aman.
Wee, Zulkifli and Chong have been briefed on the do’s and don’ts when they are at the assembly. It is not known if they have had the blessings of their respective parties or if they need it in the first place to go to the UN.
Wee is the lone Malaysian Democratic Party member who stood on a PKR ticket in last year's general election.
Malay Mail was informed that the three Opposition MPs were handpicked by Tan Sri Razali Ismail, the 1996-97 UN General Assembly president.
Details on how the three were chosen are unknown, but concern was raised as to whether including Opposition MPs would have a positive impact on Malaysia.
The General Assembly opened on Sept 10 and our local representatives will not be the only new faces from a country’s Opposition party.
One new face will be Japan’s new centre-left leader, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who has flown to New York for the assembly after being in office for less than a week. Hatoyama also plans to attend the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh.
He made his global debut on Monday, with a message of reconciliation with China, asking President Hu Jintao to work together for an EU-style East Asian community.
Hatoyama, who advocates the easing of Japan’s prickly ties with its giant neighbour, told Hu that he intends to push a vision of an East Asian community to unify the region, possibly under a single currency.
Assembly, the UN policymaking body
ESTABLISHED under a charter in 1945, the United Nations General Assembly is a forum for multilateral negotiations.
The General Assembly occupies a central position as the chief deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations. Comprising all 192 members of the UN, it also plays a significant role in the process of standard-setting and the codification of international law.
The assembly meets in regular sessions from September to December each year, and thereafter as required.
The General Assembly rules of procedure state that a member's delegation shall consist of not more than five representatives, five alternate representatives and as many advisers, technical advisers, experts and persons of similar status as may be required by the delegation.
An alternate representative may act as a representative, upon designation by the chairman of the delegation.
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