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Tue, 02/24/2009 - 17:27
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DISCUSS STRENGTHENING PARTY IN ASSEMBLY
LONDON, Feb 24 (Bernama) -- The March United Malays National Organisation (Umno)
general assembly should focus on efforts to strengthen and unite the party as
part of steps to face its challenges, said vice-president candidate Mohd Shafie
Apdal.
He said the assembly was the best platform to discuss the challenges facing
Umno now to ensure that the party and its apex leadership was accepted by all.
Shafie, who is Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister, said Umno had to
admit it was faced by more serious issues and challenges following the 12th
general election not only because of the Opposition but due to the global
economic crisis that involved the people's confidence. Umno is the political
party leading the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition.
"True, Umno has experience in facing various challenges and is capable of
overcoming them but it must admit that the challenge now were greater and had to
be handled well," he told reporters on Monday after a briefing on current issues
with Malaysians, including students, at Malaysia Hall here.
Shafie is here for the month-long Malaysian crafts promotion at Harrods in
Knightsbridge which begins Feb 25.
Shafie said Umno should focus not only on producing dynamic leaders for the
Malays but those who were accepted by all.
He said the challenges facing the country were real and Umno had to discuss
the ways to overcome them and at the same time prove that Umno was for all
races.
He said the contests for the vice-presidents posts and other positions
should be seen as contests among friends.
"Let the party elections be a process not only to choose leaders for the
betterment and strength of the party but also for national strength," he said.
Shafie also said Umno would continue to give clarification, especially to
the younger generation, on issues that the Opposition tried to confuse so that
people did not always blame the government and that included the personal
problems of the state assemblymen of Bukit Lanjan and Bukit Selambau.
If information for the people's confidence and unity was more effective via
blogs and websites it would be done, he said.
Shafie, who is also the chairman of the overseas students' affairs
committee, said students and others should not be too pre-occupied by
by-elections to the point that much time, energy and money was spent on them
while the country was facing bigger issues like the economic crisis and its
effects on development and the people.
-- BERNAMA
general assembly should focus on efforts to strengthen and unite the party as
part of steps to face its challenges, said vice-president candidate Mohd Shafie
Apdal.
He said the assembly was the best platform to discuss the challenges facing
Umno now to ensure that the party and its apex leadership was accepted by all.
Shafie, who is Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister, said Umno had to
admit it was faced by more serious issues and challenges following the 12th
general election not only because of the Opposition but due to the global
economic crisis that involved the people's confidence. Umno is the political
party leading the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition.
"True, Umno has experience in facing various challenges and is capable of
overcoming them but it must admit that the challenge now were greater and had to
be handled well," he told reporters on Monday after a briefing on current issues
with Malaysians, including students, at Malaysia Hall here.
Shafie is here for the month-long Malaysian crafts promotion at Harrods in
Knightsbridge which begins Feb 25.
Shafie said Umno should focus not only on producing dynamic leaders for the
Malays but those who were accepted by all.
He said the challenges facing the country were real and Umno had to discuss
the ways to overcome them and at the same time prove that Umno was for all
races.
He said the contests for the vice-presidents posts and other positions
should be seen as contests among friends.
"Let the party elections be a process not only to choose leaders for the
betterment and strength of the party but also for national strength," he said.
Shafie also said Umno would continue to give clarification, especially to
the younger generation, on issues that the Opposition tried to confuse so that
people did not always blame the government and that included the personal
problems of the state assemblymen of Bukit Lanjan and Bukit Selambau.
If information for the people's confidence and unity was more effective via
blogs and websites it would be done, he said.
Shafie, who is also the chairman of the overseas students' affairs
committee, said students and others should not be too pre-occupied by
by-elections to the point that much time, energy and money was spent on them
while the country was facing bigger issues like the economic crisis and its
effects on development and the people.
-- BERNAMA
