KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 16 — Malaysia did not lose its non-permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as it did not even lobby for it, deputy foreign affairs minister Datuk Seri Reezal Merican said today.
“I want to inform that we became a UNSC member in 2015, and the term ended in December, 2016. Which means, two years.
“In the history of UN or UNSC, there has never been any member who became a non-permanent member for two terms in a row.
So the assumption that we failed to continue (the UNSC membership term), is not just inaccurate, but wrong. We never lobbied. Our term is just two years,” Reezal said.
Reezal was responding to Kuala Terengganu MP Datuk Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah Raja Ahmad who had questioned why Malaysia failed to secure a continuation of its non-permanent membership of the UNSC.
