CALD visits Gerakan Headquarters

(September 19, 2005/ Kuala Lumpur) The participants and organizers of the 3rd CALD Communication Workshop visits today the national headquarters of the Malaysian People’s Movement Party (Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia) or PGRM.  The workshop is sponsored by the Council of Asian Liberals & Democrats with the support of PGRM and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. PGRM is one of the founding member parties of CALD.

The visit consisted of a tour of the impressive headquarters, a multimedia presentation of  PGRM, and a lauriat dinner at the Chinese restaurant located within the PGRM Building.

Welcoming the CALD delegation were Hon. Chia Kwang Chye, MP, PGRM Secretary General and Malaysian Deputy Minister for Internal Security, who delivered the keynote address during the dinner; Dr. Seeveratnam Vijayaratnam, PGRM Vice President for International Affairs and a former Malaysian senator.

“The most fascinating event was the speech delivered by Hon. Chia Kwang Chye,” remarked Mr. George Kamal Wijetunga Nissanka, the participant from the Liberal Party Sri Lanka. “And I think we were privileged to listen to his speech, which reflected his substance, eloquence, and humor.”

During the briefing, it was remarked that that Tower 2 of the PGRM-managed complex will be built by the end of 2006. Among others, Tower 2 will house a university and serviced apartments that can accommodate several hundred people. With this in mind, PGRM, through its Secretary General, extended the invitation for it to host a major CALD conference in 2007.

As tokens of appreciation, gifts were presented to Messrs. Chia and Vijayaratnam by Ms. Pingya Hsu of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of Taiwan and CALD Executive Director John Coronel, respectively. The participants noted the gracious hospitality of PGRM

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