Pakatan bowing to ‘manufactured pressures’, say analysts on Rome Statute U-turn
The International Criminal Court building in the Hague, the Netherlands. Malaysia has already signed the Rome Statute but still had to ratify it to formally become a member of the court, which it will no longer do. – Wikipedia pic, April 5, 2019.
THE Pakatan Harapan government needs to be firmer in defending its stand so that it is not easily pushed into making flip-flops decisions, analysts said after Putrajaya’s announcement that it was withdrawing from ratifying the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. They said the government must be “prepared to defend” its stand and not bow down to “manufactured pressures”.
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