KL unlikely to quit race for OIC job

By Haluk Ozdemir, On e-mail
20 June 2004, 18:00 PM
In the news article "KL unlikely to quit race for OIC job" (June 15), the DS reported:

In an interview with Enayetullah Khan, Chief Editor of a private news agency last week, Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said it would be easier to work to reform the organisation if his country holds both the chairman and secretary general's posts. "That being the reason," he pointed out, "we thought the best way is to put up our candidature" for the OIC secretary general. Now that the Turkish candidate has been elected, Malaysia should give up the chairmanship, for the same reasons that Malaysia wanted the post. Is there even a minuscule possibility of this happening?