KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 – The government will implement four transformation measures to strengthen the functions and roles of the National Security Council (NSC) including the tabling of the MKN Bill expected to be tabled in the current Parliament sitting.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said at the Dewan Rakyat sitting here on Monday that the new act was necessary to create the NSC legislatively as was done in several countries such as the United States, India, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and the United Kingdom.
He said the Bill will be tabled in Parliament during the Third Meeting of the Third Term of the 13th Parliament which was on October until December 2015. He said this when replying to a question from Datuk Noor Ehsanuddin Mohd Harun Narrashid (BN-Kota Tinggi).
Noor Ehsanuddin had asked on the measures taken by the government to carry out a comprehensive transformation on the NSC so that it would be more effective in tackling the increasingly complex challenges especially concerning global security lately. In addition, Najib said the government would also review the NSC Directives and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) of the agency to ensure that the directives were still relevant and could be adopted to suit the current environment.
