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pemimpin tertinggi Pakatan Rakyat hari ini menandatangani bersama
Deklarasi Kuching yang menggariskan janji gabungan parti itu untuk
meningkatkan kualiti hidup warga Sabah dan Sarawak dan menghormati
Perjanjian Malaysia 1963.Majlis tersebut berlangsung sempena sambutan Hari Malaysia Pakatan Rakyat yang diadakan di Chongling Park, Kuching, Sarawak.
Walaupun hujan lebat turun sejak awal petang namun ia tidak menghalang ribuan penduduk sekitar bandaraya terbesar di Sarawak ini berhimpun menandakan Hari Malaysia Pakatan Rakyat diiktiraf sebagai hari nasional selaras dengan penubuhan Persekutuan Malaysia 49 tahun lalu.
Ketua Pembangkang, Anwar Ibrahim, Presiden PAS, Tuan Guru Abdul Hadi Awang, Pengerusi DAP, Lim Kit Siang, Setiausaha Agung DAP yang juga Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Lim Guan Eng, mewakili parti masing-masing yang turut dihadiri Menteri Besar Selangor, Khalid Ibrahim, Timbalan Presiden PAS, Mohamad Sabu, Timbalan Presiden PKR, Azmin Ali dan pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat dari Sabah dan Sarawak.
Anwar yang menaiki penerbangan dari Kota Kinabalu tiba di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuching (KIA) jam 1245 tengah hari tadi dan disambut meriah oleh penyokong Pakatan Rakyat yang menanti di pintu ketibaan sejak jam 11 pagi.
Abdul Hadi dan Guan Eng telah tiba lebih awal bagi menghadiri majlis yang disusun padat sempena Hari Malaysia di sekitar bandaraya ini.
Deklarasi tujuh perkara itu, diumumkan sempena sambutan Hari Malaysia hari ini, antara lain menggariskan janji Pakatan sekiranya berjaya membentuk kerajaan selepas pilihan raya umum ke-13.
Dalam ucapannya, Anwar menegaskan Deklarasi Kuching menjanjikan keyakinan baru untuk rakyat Sarawak dan masa depan yang gagah untuk semua rakyat Malaysia manakala pembentukan Malaysia menjanjikan kebebasan rakyat, keadilan dalam pengagihan ekonomi dan tanah, demokrasi yang subur. -jalanpulang
THE KUCHING DECLARATION
LEST WE FORGET, AND LEST ALL THE PEOPLES OF OUR GREAT NATION OF MALAYSIA FORGET, WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, DO ONCE AGAIN FIRMLY, RESOLUTELY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY PLEDGE AND PROMISE BEFORE THE WHOLE NATION OF MALAYSIA AS OUR WITNESSES, ON THIS HISTORIC DAY THE 16TH OF SEPTEMBER, 2012, IN THE CITY OF KUCHING, AND ON BEHALF OF OUR RESPECTIVE PARTIES AND PAKATAN RAKYAT AS A WHOLE, THAT WHEN WE FORM THE NEXT GOVERNMENT OF MALAYSIA, PAKATAN RAKYAT WILL HONOUR ALL ITS PLEDGES AND PROMISES TO THE PEOPLES OF MALAYSIA.
WE WILL HONOURABLY EXECUTE ALL THE POLICIES SET FORTH IN THE BUKU JINGGA SO THAT MALAYSIA WILL ONCE AGAIN BE A GREAT NATION, HER PEOPLES PROSPEROUS, HER FUTURE SECURE AND PEACEFUL, AND HER NAME CELEBRATED BY ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
WE WILL HONOUR THE SPIRIT OF THE MALAYSIA AGREEMENT OF 1963 WHICH OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THEIR HANDS TO, AND AS A SIGN OF OUR DEEP COMMITMENT TO THE PEOPLES OF SARAWAK AND SABAH, CONSISTENT WITH DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES AND JUSTICE FOR ALL MALAYSIANS, IN PARTICULAR:
ARTICLE ONE: EQUAL PARTNERS
We will restore the spirit of the Malaysia Agreement and the position of Sarawak and Sabah as equal partners within Malaysia by restoring autonomy to Sarawak and Sabah within the framework of the Federal Constitution.
ARTICLE TWO: FAIR REPRESENTATION
We will increase national integration between Sarawak, Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia through a fair power-sharing arrangement that fully upholds the spirit of the Malaysia Agreement.
ARTICLE THREE: CITIZENSHIP
We will set up a Royal Commission to solve the perennial national problem of illegal immigration and citizenship, particularly in Sarawak and Sabah.
ARTICLE FOUR: RESTORATION OF NATIVE CUSTOMARY RIGHTS OVER LAND
We will endorse the authority already vested in the State Laws of Sarawak and Sabah to set up Land Commissions to investigate, resolve disputes, redress, survey and restore Native Customary Rights over Native Customary Lands.
ARTICLE FIVE: COMPETENT SARAWAK AND SABAH
We will endorse the appointment of Sarawak and Sabah citizens to head Government Departments in their own respective States and by the powers vested in the State Secretaries of both States as well as give first priority to the appointment of Sarawak and Sabah citizens at Federal Government level functioning within Sarawak and Sabah.
ARTICLE SIX: OIL JUSTICE
We will raise the royalties paid on petroleum and hydrocarbon resources to Sarawak and Sabah to 20% from the present 5%.
ARTICLE SEVEN: EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT
We will bring the level of infrastructure development in Sarawak and Sabah up to par with Peninsular Malaysia.
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, MAKE THIS DECLARATION AS AN INCONTROVERTIBLE CONTRACT BETWEEN THE PAKATAN RAKYAT AND THE PEOPLES OF MALAYSIA, THIS HISTORIC DAY OF 16TH SEPTEMBER, 2012, ON MALAYSIA DAY, SO THAT IT MAY RING OUT RESOUNDINGLY FROM MALAYSIA’S HIGH FOREST HILLS DOWN TO THE OPEN SEA; SO THAT FREEDOM MAY EVER REIGN; AND OUR PEOPLES LIVE IN UNITY!
In witness whereof the undersigned, being duly authorised thereto, have signed this Declaration, and all the peoples of Malaysia being witnesses thereof.
Done at Kuching, this 16th day of September, 2012, in six copies of which one shall be deposited with each of the signatories.
For People’s Justice Party (KEADILAN)
Y.B. DATO’ SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM, Ketua Umum
For Democratic Action Party (DAP)
Y.B. LIM KIT SIANG, Parliamentary Leader
For Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS)
Y.B. DATO’ SERI HJ. ABDUL HADI AWANG, President
For People’s Justice Party (KEADILAN)
Y.B. BARU BIAN, Chairman, PKR Sarawak
For Democratic Action Party (DAP)
Y.B. WONG HO LENG, Chairman, DAP Sarawak
For Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS)
TUAN HAJI ADAM BIN AHID, State Commissioner, PAS Sarawak
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