We should feel proud of Malta’s achievement in obtaining a seat in the UN Security Council with a 97% vote. While it is a great honour for the present administration, it is also a great responsibility and one augurs that it will make the most of it.

However, it must be acknowledged that it was thanks to former Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi’s intelligent and timely bid, submitted in 2011, in the midst of the Libyan crisis, that we managed to arrive once more to have a voice and vote in this prestigious body.

It is, consequently, a great shame on our State broadcaster when it fails to acknowledge this very important fact leading to this headline development. Once more, it has desperately failed in its constitutional duty to inform us of national importance matters in a full, objective and factual manner. This is going too far now.

It only goes on to increase political polarization in our country in spite of Prime Minister Robert Abela’s promise,  immediately after his last resounding electoral victory, that he will “extend a hand of friendship” to the Opposition.

 

Dr Mark Said LL.D.

Msida