by Chairman of All-Party Parliamentary Committee on Parliamentary Honour and National Integrity, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, March 1, 1994:
All-Party Parliamentary Committee on Parliamentary Honour and National Integrity will study the British media reports on their allegations of corruption, bribery and improprieties against Malaysian Government and its leaders
The All-Party Parliamentary Committee on Parliamentary Honour and National Integrity will study the British mass media reports on their allegations of corruption, bribery and improprieties against Malaysian Government.and its leaders on various business deals involving Malaysia and Britain.
UMNO Vice President and Johore Mentri Besar, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, said that the Cabinet decision to deny new government contracts to British companies was to teach the British media a lesson for defaming Government, leaders.
Deputy Home Affairs Minister, Datuk Megat Junid Megat Avob, said yesterday that the government’s action should be viewed as a move to protect the country’s integrity and not in terms of financial loss or gain.
As the Government has declined so far to establish a Royal Commission of Inquiry to conduct a high-powered investigations into the British mass media allegations against the Malaysian Government and its leaders, the All-Party Parliamentary Committee on Parliamentary Honour and ‘National Integrity is the only forum left to examine and study the British mass media reports in order to uphold and protect the integrity and good name of the nation.
I will propose to the All-Party Parliamentary Committee on Parliamentary Honour and National Integrity at its first meeting on Monday, March 7, 1994 at Committee Room One, Parlia¬ment, that the British mass media allegations against the Malaysian Government and its leaders about corruption, bribery and improrieties which had been reported in the past.’ two months should be one of the priority items in its agenda.