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Port Development and Shipping, Eastern Development and Muslim Religious Affairs Minister Rauff Hakeem yesterday had a lengthy session on studying the Federal System in Malaysia with a group of political and economic experts at the Asia-Europe Institute (AEI) of the University of Malaya.

During the session, special emphasis was paid on the economic and constitutional structure of the Federal system in Malaysia which is housed to a number of ethnic groups, religions, nationalities and languages.

"Sri Lanka, at this very crucial stage of transition, should draw lessons from Asian success stories like that of Malaysia before thinking of faraway destinations", Minister Hakeem, who was in Kuala Lumpur on a two-day working visit in Kuala Lumpur on his way back from the Japan peace talks, said.

"We have a lot to learn from you and we share a lot with you," he said suggesting that the Sri Lanka Peace Secretariat which is now seriously engaged in a process of studying various modules of Federal structures in the world, should join hands with academic institutions such as AEI for better results. The Minister was briefed on the Federal system in Malaysia by leading academic persons in Kuala Lumpur including AEI Executive Director Prof. Dato Dr. Shahari Talib and AEI Research Fellow and former ASEAN Secretary General Tan Sri Dato, Ajit Singh.

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