PETALING JAYA: Concentrate on the waning economy, rather than the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) which is against the Federal Constitution and the social contract of the nation, says former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
He said that the previous Barisan Nasional government twice studied ICERD in 2011 and 2015, but dropped the idea of ratifying it because the convention was found to be incompatible with the Federal Constitution.
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