9/30/2019

Headline October 01, 2019/ '' '*WORLD? ALL HELPLESS' '' : P.M MAHATHIR MOHAMED


'' 'WORLD ALL HELPLESS' '' :

 P.M MAHATHIR MOHAMED




MALAYSIAN PRIME MINISTER MAHATHIR MOHAMMAD just about the greatest leader of the last few decades rose to such honors and eminence :

''Generally, the world is all helpless,'' he said, urging greater international control of sanctions, criticising the US attempts to force all countries to stop doing business with Iran.

''We do not know under what laws sanctions are applied. It appears to be the privilege of the rich and the powerful,'' the 94-year-old leader said.

''If you want to have sanctions, lets have a law to govern them,'' he said. ''The fact is that when sanctions are applied to a country, other countries get sanctioned as well. Malaysia and many others lost a big market when sanctions were applied on Iran.

The  United States has increasingly used sanctions as a diplomatic tool, with President Donald J Trump threatening other nations with punishment if they if they buy any oil from Iran.

Seeking to curb Iran's regional influence, Trump unilaterally imposed the sanctions after walking away from a multinational nuclear deal. Speaking to the reporters after his address at the UN, Mahathir acknowledged that Malaysian firms had little choice but to comply for fear of being hit by US sanctions.

NEW YORK : Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad on Friday said despite UN resolutions on held Jammu and Kashmir, the territory has been invaded and occupied.

''There may be reasons for this action but it is still wrong. The problem must be solved by peaceful means. India should work with Pakistan to resolve this problem,'' he said in his address to the UN  General Assembly. ''Ignoring the UN would lead to other forms of disregard for the UN and Rule of Law,'' he said.

Mahathir also renewed his criticism of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an 11 nation trade pact that includes Malaysia but from which Trump pulled the United States.

''Rich companies have given themselves the power to sue governments. The terms of the agreement were drawn up by them - and they are not all like Bill Gates, who spends some money on charity. ''Most are bent on exploiting the power money gives them,'' he said.

Malaysia does not want to take a confrontational stance towards China over the disputed China Sea and Beijing's alleged mistreatment of its minority Uighur Muslims, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad said in an interview published on Saturday.

Malaysia is too small to face up to the Asian powerhouse, even though Chinese ships surveying its waters for oil and gas in South China Sea do so without permission, he told an online news service during a visit to New York this week.

''We watch what they are doing, we report what they are doing, but we do not chase them away or try to be aggressive,'' Mahathir told Benar News.

''The Malay states have existed near China for the past 2,000 years. We have survived because we know how to conduct ourselves.  We don't go around trying to be aggressive when we don't have the capacity, so we use other means.''

He said in the past Malaysia used to send to China ''gold and silver flowers every year as a symbol of our being practically, well, subservient to them.'' This month, China and Malaysia agreed to set up a joint dialogue mechanism for the South China Sea, as ties between countries improve. China is Malaysia's biggest trading partner.

Mahathir also said China's might was the reason Muslim-majority Malaysia did not speak out much against Beijing's alleged repression of Uighur Muslims.

''You just don't try and do something which would fail anyway, so it is better to find some other less violent ways not to anatgonise China too much, because China is beneficial for us,'' he said.

''Of course its a big trading partner of ours and you do not want to do something that will fail, and in the process, also we will suffer.''

The United Nation says that at least 1 Million Uighurs and other Muslims have been detained in what China describes as ''vocational training centers'' to stamp out extremism and give people new skills. 
With respectful dedication to the Leaders, Students, Professors and Teachers of world.

See Ya all on Facebook, prepare and register for Great Global Elections on The World Students Society : wssciw.blogspot.com and Twitter - !E-WOW! - the Ecosystem 2011:

''' Storms & Strife '''

Good Night and God Bless

SAM Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Grace A Comment!