Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof said this is a continuation of concluded discussions for Sarawak, focused on identifying areas of authority that can be decentralised to the state government for the management of education and healthcare matters. — Bernama picKUCHING, March 31 — The Malaysia Agreement 1963 Implementation Action Council Technical Committee will hold a meeting in the next two weeks to finalise the education and health issues in Sabah and Sarawak.
“As agreed during the visit of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yesterday, for example, if schools constructed by the Sarawak government meet equivalent standards at a reduced cost, they will be executed under the agreed terms,” he said. “The state government may, for instance, require Sarawak to establish its own Cancer Centre, but due to budgetary constraints and other policies, an agreement was reached yesterday to establish a committee between the state and federal governments.