Friday, February 9, 2007

US/MALAYSIA FTA just for big project


KUALA LUMPUR 8 Feb. – Amerika Syarikat tidak menyentuh soal membida projek-projek berskala kecil melibatkan projek pembangunan yang diperuntukkan kepada kontraktor bumiputera kelas F dalam rundingan Perjanjian Perdagangan Bebas (FTA) negara itu dengan Malaysia.
Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri, Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz berkata, AS sangat menghormati polisi kerajaan Malaysia berhubung isu penyertaan bumiputera dalam ekonomi.
Sehubungan itu, katanya, AS tidak menyentuh isu berkenaan semasa rundingan pusingan kelima FTA yang sedang berlangsung di Karambunai Resort, Sabah.
“AS sangat memahami isu-isu dalaman yang melibatkan bumiputera,” jelas beliau.
“Firma-firma AS hanya berminat menyertai tender projek-projek berskala besar,” kata Rafidah kepada pemberita di sini hari ini selepas menyaksikan majlis memeterai memorandum persefahaman (MoU) antara QI Services (M) Sdn. Bhd. dengan ISS Consulting (M) Sdn. Bhd. bagi pembelian perisian perancangan sumber perusahaan bersepadu (ERP), mySAP.
Rundingan pusingan kelima FTA antara AS dan Malaysia selama lima hari di Sabah akan berakhir esok.

Tunku: oh rafidah only class F protected, what about other classes ,E,D,C,B and A????
Last week your tone was brave like the one you should be as they called you Iron Lady but now what happened??? Do we need this FTA for government projects???? Think before you destroy us.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

eeh they look alike are they twin sisters?hehe.
its beter we dont do this fta thing with us, they still need us very much,we says that there are biggest trading partner but more than 70%of our export to us are products by american company operated here, so to hell with this fta with usa