Category: Foreign Affairs

Call on ASEAN countries to jointly request a United Nations General Assembly debate and jointly sponsor a resolution condemning Vietnam for its racism and genocide in extorting blood money and exporting refugees

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, at a tea-party reception for the visiting Japanese Democratic Socialist Party Youth delegation at Federal Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, on Friday, July 13, 1979 at 10 a.m.

Call on ASEAN countries to jointly request a United Nations General Assembly debate and jointly sponsor a resolution condemning Vietnam for its racism and genocide in extorting blood money and exporting refugees

It is reported that Vietnam has formally agreed to attend the United Nations conference on South East Asian refugees in Geneva next week, on the understanding that only humanitarian aspects of the problem were to be discussed. Continue reading Call on ASEAN countries to jointly request a United Nations General Assembly debate and jointly sponsor a resolution condemning Vietnam for its racism and genocide in extorting blood money and exporting refugees

DAP calls on Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to appoint former Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman as Malaysia’s first High Commissioner for Refugees

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Wednesday, 11th July 1979:

DAP calls on Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to appoint former Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman as Malaysia’s first High Commissioner for Refugees

The world is witnessing the unfolding of a great human tragedy and holocaust, where every day, thousands of Vietnamese refugees are being drowned in the high seas. Continue reading DAP calls on Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to appoint former Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman as Malaysia’s first High Commissioner for Refugees

Call on Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to convene an emergency Parliament meeting on the unending influx of Vietnamese refugees/illegal immigrants

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when declaring open the First DAP Selangor State Annual Convention held at Transport Workers’ Union Hall on Sunday, 8th July 1979 at 10 a.m.

Call on Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to convene an emergency Parliament meeting on the unending influx of Vietnamese refugees/illegal immigrants before the International Conference on the Indo-Chinese Refugees in Geneva on July 20 and July 21.

The world community has too long allowed Vietnam to get away with its barbaric and uncivilized policy of extorting blood money and exporting refugees, conducting with impunity a blatant policy of racism and genocide, which should have goaded the international community into drastic action against the Vietnamese regime, both in the United Nations and outside. Continue reading Call on Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, to convene an emergency Parliament meeting on the unending influx of Vietnamese refugees/illegal immigrants

Call on Soviet Russia to use pressured to stop Vietnam’s barbaric policy of extorting blood money and exporting refuges to demonstrate Soviet Union’s good intentions in South East Asia

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at a joint meeting of Serdang Bahru, Puchong and Sungei Bsi Mines Branches held at Serdang Bahru DAP Branch on Thursday, 5th July 1979 at 7.30pm

Call on Soviet Russia to use pressured to stop Vietnam’s barbaric policy of extorting blood money and exporting refuges to demonstrate Soviet Union’s good intentions in South East Asia

The DAP welcomes the decision of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers in Bali to get Soviet Russia to use pressure on Vietnam to stop its barbaric policy of extorting blood money and exporting refugees to de-stabilise ASEAN countries. Continue reading Call on Soviet Russia to use pressured to stop Vietnam’s barbaric policy of extorting blood money and exporting refuges to demonstrate Soviet Union’s good intentions in South East Asia

Industrial Co-Ordination Act short-falls

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petalibg, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the Industrial Co-ordination Act (Amendment) Bill 1979 on June 21, 1979)

Industrial Co-Ordination Act – the cause of $6,224 million short-falls of domestic private investment under Third Malaysia Plan

On December 12 last year, my colleague, the MP for Seremban and DAP National Chairman, Dr. Chen Man Hin, sought to move a private member’s bill to repeal the Industrial Co-ordination Act as “the investment climate, already clouded by a world recession, has worsened because of the ICA.”

The DAP bid was defeated, with the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Datuk Law Sip Hon, painting a rosy picture of expanding investment in Malaysia. Continue reading Industrial Co-Ordination Act short-falls

DAP shocked by President Carter’s praise of Malaysia as “Model for human rights”

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, when speaking to members of DAP Branches in the Menglembu Parliamentary Constituency at a meeting held at Pasir Pinji DAP Branch on Friday, 7th Oct. 1977 at 8 p.m.

DAP shocked by President Carter’s praise of Malaysia as “Model for human rights” – and demands clarification from President Carter or American Government

Last week, Radio and Television Malaysia gave prominent time to a report that President Carter had described Malaysia as a “model for human rights for other countries.”

This was carried also in several newspapers, quoting Bernama as the source. Continue reading DAP shocked by President Carter’s praise of Malaysia as “Model for human rights”

Lim Kit Siang calls for a full government investigation and a White Paper on the UMNO Youth Leader’s links and associations with Russian communist money

Speech by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Secretary-General in the Dewan Rakyat on Monday, 15th Nov. 196 on the Prime Minister’s Department during the 1977 Budget Committee Stage Debate

Lim Kit Siang calls for a full government investigation and a White Paper on the UMNO Youth Leader’s links and associations with Russian communist money

During my speech on the 1977 Budget on No. 1, I asked for an investigation into the ‘Russian connection’ of the Great Malaysia Line Sdn, Bhd., which runs pilgrim ships to Mecca, as two top UMNO leaders who have been most vociferous about the irreconciliability of Islam and communism were involved. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang calls for a full government investigation and a White Paper on the UMNO Youth Leader’s links and associations with Russian communist money

People of Malaysia fully supports the Palestian people’s right in Palestine to independent rationhood and to return to their homes

Speech by Opposition Leader and DAP Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at a luncheon given by Opposition Members of Parliament and State Assemblymen at Parliament House for the two P.L.O. representatives in Malaysia on Wednesday, 17th December 1975 at 1 p.m.

People of Malaysia fully supports the Palestian people’s right in Palestine to independent rationhood and to return to their homes

We have with us as guests of the luncheon, Encik Abu Yacob, who has been P.L.O. representative in Malaysia since the establishment of the P.L.O. office here in 1969, and who will be leaving us soon to set up a new P.L.O. office in Jakarta, and his successor Encik Raid. Continue reading People of Malaysia fully supports the Palestian people’s right in Palestine to independent rationhood and to return to their homes

DAP warning that any break of diplomatic relations with People’s Republic of China would make neutralisation of South East Asia an impossibility

Speech by Ketua Pembangkang and DAP Member Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat during the 1976 Committee of Supply debate on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

DAP warning that any break of diplomatic relations with People’s Republic of China would make neutralisation of South East Asia an impossibility

Antara matlamat-matlamat Kememterian Luar Negeri ialah “untuk mengekalkan dan memperkembangkan hubungan-hubungan baik di-antara Negara kita dengan lain-lain Negara yang mahu mengadakan perhubungan demikian dengan kita.” Continue reading DAP warning that any break of diplomatic relations with People’s Republic of China would make neutralisation of South East Asia an impossibility

DAP Protest against reduction of New Zealand university places for Malaysian students.

DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, today issued the following statement:

DAP Protest against reduction of New Zealand university places for Malaysian students.

The DAP opposed to new government regulations to affecting Malaysian students intending to go to New Zealand and Australia for higher studies.

At a time when more and more Malaysians youths, especially non-Malays, find the doers of Malaysian universities closed to them, although they possess the requisite university entrance qualifications, any government move which will lead to further reduction of the opportunities of these Malaysian students to go abroad to further higher studies at their own expenses must be opposed and deplored. Continue reading DAP Protest against reduction of New Zealand university places for Malaysian students.