M'sia will continue honouring Paris Agreement, says Anwar in response to US pullout of treaty

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During an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan 22, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said Malaysia would honour the Paris Agreement and keep the country on track to in its measures against climate change.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/5ah8ydpz  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00It's a great pleasure and honor for me to have the discussion with someone for whom

00:10I have great respect and actually, Prime Minister, we met the first time nearly 40 years ago.

00:18When we were kids.

00:19When we were kids, exactly, when we were kids.

00:24So I ask you two questions.

00:26The first one is what, let's say, takes you to sleep at night if you think of the human

00:34rights situation in the world.

00:35You have been very outspoken, very engaged.

00:39And second, with now the cancellation of the Paris Agreement by the U.S., will you maintain

00:51your commitment to green development in Malaysia?

00:56Well, first on the issue of human rights, justice, anti-colonization and exploitation,

01:04harlop, harlop, which was the slogan in the 70s.

01:08I have not forgotten that.

01:11I think we should be really consistent.

01:13There is trust deficit, and there is certainly the issue of deficit in terms of moral, ethical

01:22principles in governance.

01:24There is what I consider as hypocrisy, politics of ambivalence.

01:31But what do we see?

01:33So we will have to have a showcase.

01:35Malaysia is a multiracial country.

01:37Now we can showcase that we are the Muslim majority with strong ethnic Chinese and ethnic

01:43Indians and the tribal groups in Sabah-Sarawak can be taken as one great family.

01:51Then we showcase that in that manner.

01:53We have a problem in Myanmar.

01:55ASEAN has reached this five-point consensus.

01:59But we are very aggressively engaging with Myanmar now on the principles, which of course

02:06cannot ignore the issue of human rights.

02:10On the issue of climate change, it doesn't matter whether this is Paris Accord or international

02:14recognition.

02:15We have to take measures to save our country and our society.

02:21And if it requires us to observe strictly the understanding, which is tied to the Paris

02:27Agreement, we have to honor.

02:30And I think it is not a matter of honoring that.

02:32We are working at a faster pace.

02:35That's why we have the ASEAN Energy Agreement.

02:37It's a faster pace than what was projected earlier.

02:39And if we can reach that in the next few years, then of course it's more economic, it's cheaper

02:46energy, but it meets the requirements of the Paris Accord.

02:51So it doesn't matter whether – well, it does matter to the world, unfortunately, that

02:56we need countries, rich countries, industrial countries, that cost most of the burden to

03:01undertake some of these measures.

03:03What they promised, they have not honored.

03:04Maybe we can go on complaining, but we have to start doing it.

03:09So you ask me on the issue of human rights, human climate, is it because of international

03:13understanding?

03:14No.

03:15It is what is our commitment, our values dictate for the sake of humanity, that we undertake

03:23bold, tough measures, beginning from our home.

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