{"id":242883,"date":"2023-11-02T10:25:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T02:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=242883"},"modified":"2023-11-02T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T02:25:34","slug":"malaysia-will-not-stop-engagement-to-convince-other-countries-to-support-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=242883","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia will not stop ‘engagement’ to convince other countries to support Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2\u00a0(NNN-Bernama) — Malaysia will not stop its engagement\u00a0<\/em>and continue to convince other countries to support the Palestine cause and condemn\u00a0Israel’s continued attacks on civilians and ground assaults in Gaza said Foreign Minister\u00a0Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said Malaysia need to continue efforts to convince not only countries in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) but also countries in the Group of 77 (G77) as well as countries in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), to assist the people of Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEngagement<\/em> need to be continued and we should not be discouraged because we know that countries that have influential powers are the United States, European Union and Latin America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are witnessing one country after another from the Latin America region pledging their support and condemning the atrocities against the people of Gaza,\u201d he said in Dewan Rakyat (lower house of Parliament) Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zambry added that during the meeting Wednesday between Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and the visiting Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia had stated its stance on the Palestinian issue and the Netherlands respects the stance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe (Rutte) listened to the explanation by Malaysia and agrees that with the latest development in Gaza for the past two weeks, the sentiment of the Dutch people has changed. They used to support the Israeli attacks and the European stance, but now the majority of them no longer agree with the continued attacks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zambry added that the people and the Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) need to play an active role in spreading the engagement, <\/em>including those living abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of the United States government\u2019s action to send three \u2018demarche<\/em>\u2019 to Malaysia for its firm stance and Malaysia’s reluctance to consider Hamas as a terrorist group, he said: \u201cSome have called Malaysia to deliver a protest note to ambassadors of countries that are not in favour…we will take all approaches to make our stance known.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMalaysia\u2019s Principle position<\/em> is clear in the context of the Palestine cause, this is not new but has been Malaysia\u2019s stance for a long time and this must be made known when we interact with them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— NNN-BERNAMA\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2\u00a0(NNN-Bernama) — Malaysia will not stop its engagement\u00a0and continue to convince other countries to support the Palestine cause and condemn\u00a0Israel’s continued attacks on civilians and ground assaults in Gaza said Foreign Minister\u00a0Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir. He said Malaysia need to continue efforts to convince not only countries in the Organisation of Islamic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":238311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242883"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242884,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242883\/revisions\/242884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/238311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}