Dewan Rakyat Speaker met Haniyeh the day before

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Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Johari Abdul has expressed his sadness over the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, whom he just met a day prior to his assassination in Iran.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Yeah, first of all, we were sad to know that the

00:06assassination of the

00:09beloved leader

00:11anyhow, what happened was that I

00:15Had a good conversation with him

00:18during the

00:20Ceremony I I knew him quite some time ago because when he he dropped by in Colombo. We did

00:28Meet each other then, you know, we need to say that they are quite quite personalized

00:34relationship

00:35Here's a very close

00:38To the to the Prime Minister. He's a close friend to the Prime Minister

00:42So when he visited he visited Prime Minister then in I had opportunity of meeting him

00:48So this is where I got to know him. So when I met him yesterday

00:52During the ceremony, it was like 4.30 in the afternoon. Then

00:58Of course, we were talking about how you know, he was in KL and then I said

01:05Prime Minister did send him salam and yeah, he said

01:09then after that both of us went to see the

01:13newly elected

01:15President of Iran and you know, we spent quite a few minutes there

01:20Then that's it

01:22Then he I don't believe he

01:24He appeared in the dinner reception last night

01:28Because I don't see him at the dinner reception. Yeah

01:31so

01:33Then I was surprised to know that

01:37In the morning early in the morning that he was

01:41It was assassinated. Yeah, it is

01:44It was a surprise to me. Yeah, so how was he I mean when you last met him

01:49Like

01:51Was he his usual self?

01:54You see this gentleman is is a really a very very polite person. That's why when we meet we meet him

02:02I was

02:03well, I was stunned that

02:05that could happen because he

02:08he doesn't

02:10certainly doesn't talk about what happened in Gaza or

02:13in

02:15in Jerusalem

02:17But then we're talking about something else so there was no conversation

02:21About what's happening in the in the Gaza at that time. That's yesterday. It would so the note

02:28Issue of Gaza was not worries personally

02:31Then we're talking about, you know, he's old trip to Colombo and how do you feel about the newly elected president?

02:40and stuff like that, so

02:42After this incident country is the security for the Malaysian delegation beefed up how's the situation there

02:49How are all the attendees reacting to it?

02:54Well, we'll make to understand with the government

02:58of Iran has intensified the

03:01security arrangement

03:03In fact our ambassador here done good job

03:06that we had

03:09Additional security, of course from day one we were given I would say

03:16Good security coverage for that matter

03:18In fact when we travel from hotel the way I'm staying now to all the function venue

03:25We were covered and enough security I would say

03:28but then after what happened last night the

03:32That I could see the intensity

03:35more

03:36Military presence and police presence. And of course I did it since

03:42Morning, I've not walked out of the hotel. I was staying in the hotel and everything was done in the hotel

03:48so, you know, thank God that I

03:51would say well the government has taken a very fast action on that and you know all the tickets I

04:00Think we're taking care of in terms of security and other logistic issues are done

04:07Delegation coming back

04:12Well, we are scheduled to be arrived by tomorrow

04:16So hopefully that yeah, hopefully that

04:19The flights are not delayed

04:22As a part is still open. I hope

04:26Then should everything is okay, then we should be home by tomorrow

04:30first of all, I would like to

04:32This is my personal feeling that we lost a very nice

04:37Not only able leader, but a nice diplomat. I mean he was instrumental to the

04:44to the struggle

04:45our condolence on behalf of the parliamentarians to the family of

04:51late Ismail and to the authority in Hamas authority in Gaza

05:02You

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