PETALING JAYA: The founder of the Global Chinese Economic and Technology Summit (GCET) has defined that he is not the organiser of the eleventh World Chinese Economic Forum (WCEF) which had former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak as its keynote speaker.
Tan Sri Lee Kim Yew stated it was true that the WCEF had initially been based by him in 2009 however the identify of the forum has since been modified to World Chinese Economic Summit, after which this yr to the GCET.
Lee stated it was a “enormous embarrassment” for him that Najib is concerned on this “new WCEF” that he had nothing to do with and did not organise.
“I’ve come to know the organiser of the Dec 27 occasion has been utilizing the identify of WCEF and a few of our previous photographs in China two years in the past and has referred to as it the eleventh WCEF. This will certainly trigger confusion.
“The organiser of this Dec 27 occasion ought to not have referred to as it the eleventh WCEF within the first place.This time they invited the previous prime minister to that forum, a convicted prison awaiting the end result of an attraction,” he stated.
“Surely they caught media consideration, however l have to make my stand clear, we should respect the judiciary and uphold the Rule of Law in Malaysia,” added Lee in a press release on Sunday (Dec 26).
Lee added that he felt embarrassed when confronted by mates enquiring if he had invited the previous premier to officiate the WCEF occasion.
“I want to make clear and to placed on report that this new World Chinese Economic Forum has nothing to do with me,” he stated.
