Attorney General Ahmed Usham said a blanket ban on Israeli passports requires further consideration, citing concerns that millions of Palestinians hold Israeli passports. The administration will not introduce its own bill since opposition MP Meekail Ahmed Nasym's bill amending the Maldives Immigration Act is already before parliament, and it intends to amend that bill at the committee stage.
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The biggest concern of some is that there are many Palestinians holding Israeli passports, millions of them, so what happens when we issue a blanket ban? These are things that need to be thought through
According to the rules of the Parliament, if a bill has been introduced on the same issue, one cannot be concurrently introduced for a second time… We believed that it would be best to accept the existing bill and amend it at the committee…
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The bill, proposed earlier by opposition Member of Parliament Meekail Ahmed Nasym to amend The Maldives Immigration Act (1/2007), is already under parliamentary consideration; however, Usham highlighted that the bill, in its current form, might not be practical.
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