KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 21 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The convening of the Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019 has resulted in tangible outcomes being outlined in a bid to bring progress and improve the state of the Muslim ummah, said Malaysia’s Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
The summit facilitated 18 successful exchange of instruments in various fields including advanced hi-technology; media collaboration; centre of excellence; food security and youth leadership and exchange programmes.
“There are several more in the pipeline which are being worked out resulting from discussions during this Summit,” Dr Mahathir said in his closing remarks at the four-day summit at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, here today.
Dr Mahathir, who is also KL Summit chairman, said it was hoped that other Muslim brethren will see for themselves that what KL Summit intends to do is to unite the ummah on strategic and advanced technologies.
“Acquiring this knowledge is our only hope to stop the ummah from continuously being bullied and mistreated by our enemies,
“We re-affirm our creed that all Muslims are brothers and that this small step we have taken will be the beginning of a lengthy and fruitful journey with the rest of the ummah,” he said.
Dr Mahathir said the most important aspect of all the focus of the summit – economy, science and technology as well as the defence industry – is the need to be able to produce and create new indigenous technologies.
“For as long as we are dependent on the technology created by the enemies of Islam, they will forever be able to circumvent, dictate and control our efforts to improve our technologies and defence system in particular,” he said.