Ministers back down, memo withdrawn

comments     Beh Lih Yi, Andrew Ong and Muda Mohd Noor     Published     Updated

updated version The controversial memorandum is now a case of 'here today and gone tomorrow' after its retraction by the ministers concerned. Hopefully, the heat and tension built up over the past two days will also follow suit.

Today, the non-Muslim ministers have agreed to retract the memorandum which calls for the religious rights of minorities to be protected, a relieved Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced this evening.

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