Report: Jaxu
Mohamed Hussain Shareef, Mundhu, has issued a press release rejecting the comments made by Ex Attorney General Dr. Hassan Saeed at a press conference held yesterday.Dr. Hassan Saeed has claimed former US President Bill Clinton, Chairperson of British all Party Parliamentary Group Lord Nasbey, Commonwealth Secretary General Don McKinnon and Special Envoy of the Commonwealth Secretary General to Maldives to oversee the implementation of the Reform Agenda Tan Sri Musa Bin Hitham, has advised President Gayoom that they does not believe that it right for him to compete in the presidential elections of 2008.
Mundhu in the press release said that Dr. Hassan Saeed’s claims were not true and that none of the foreign dignitaries or any other dignitary has ever made a statement to that effect. Mundhu said according to the President, none of the dialogues exchanged with the dignitaries, whether verbal or otherwise, had the dignitaries ever expressed any statement to that effect. In the press release Mundhu expressed hoped that such dignitaries would not concern themselves with internal matters of the country.
The press release noted that President Gayoom’s intention to compete in the forthcoming election of 2008 as well as information on the list of priorities the he would take up following his re election, has already been communicated to the people of Maldives and foreign dignitaries.
Further the press release reminded Dr. Hassan Saeed and his colleagues that it was not proper to use names of such dignitaries in their campaign process and that such actions will be duly informed to them.
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