This was because the Barisan government had listened to and accepted the advice of the then Attorney General that it (Rome Statute) may contradict the Constitution and laws of the country. “Unlike the Pakatan Harapan government, we never announced to the world that we will ratify and then make a U-turn. We never signed anything to ratify,” said Najib in a Facebook posting, shortly after a forum on Rome Statute took place yesterday. Panellists at the forum had revealed that the process to ratify the Rome Statute began in 1998, under Najib’s tenure as prime minister, and the Pakatan government was merely completing the process by ratifying it. “The Cabinet overruled the AGC’s objection in 2011 and decided to ratify the Rome Statute then,” Noor Farida claimed.

Source: The Star April 27, 2019 23:15 UTC