KUCHING: The Pre-Council Meeting held on Sunday (March 1) in Kuala Lumpur served as an early coordination and consolidation platform ahead of the Technical Committee Meeting under the Malaysia Agreement 1963 Implementation Action Council (MTPMA63).
Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan chaired the Pre-Council Meeting, which was held in preparation for the MTPMA63 meeting scheduled to take place at Parliament today.
The main council meeting will be chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Amar Fadillah Yusof.
The meeting served as an important platform to ensure that all technical and legal issues related to the implementation of MA63 are thoroughly examined, while strengthening Sarawak’s unified stance in safeguarding the state’s rights and interests at the federal level.
This early coordination step reflects the Sarawak government’s continued commitment to ensuring that all negotiations and decisions discussed at the MTPMA63 level are carried out in an orderly, fact-based manner and guided by a clear legal framework.
Among those present were Minister for Tourism, Creative Industry and Performing Arts Datuk Seri Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah; Minister for Education, Innovation and Talent Development Datuk Seri Roland Sagah Wee Inn; Deputy Minister in the Sarawak Premier’s Department (Law, MA63 and State-Federal Relations) Datuk Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghazali; Sarawak Attorney-General Datuk Seri Saferi Ali; Deputy State Secretary (Economic Planning and Development) Datuk Seri Dr Muhammad Abdullah Zaidel as well as relevant department heads.
