No need to meet in Jakarta or London, we can meet you here - Anwar tells "secretive" Najib

UPDATED VIDEO INSERTED Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim said there was no need for Prime Minister Najib Razak to try to meet him in "secrecy" as reported by a news portal aligned to the Najib camp.

"There is no need to meet in Jakarta or London quietly or secretly. We can always meet openly in Parliament or in his office - myself as well as the other Pakatan Rakyat leaders Hadi Awang and Lim Kit Siang," Anwar told a press conference on Wednesday.

He was referring to the report that alleged a hush-hush pow-wow had been set up by Home Minister Zahid Hamidi to facilitate the meeting, where some believed Najib would attempt to propose a 'national reconcilaition' of sorts following the most divisive general elections in the country's history.

Anwar has already denied meeting Najib or sending any messengers to meet the other side. According to Anwar, he had been invited to Jakarta by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to give his take on several issues including the fraud and vote rigging the Opposition claim took place during the Malaysian ballot.

"I have met the President on a number of occassions at breakfast meetings and so forth but this is the first direct meeting of almost one-and-a-half hours and of course I was delighted to meet him and thanked him for giving that recognition. He represents a democratic country and it is not peculiar or a crime to meet elected leaders of another country although that is what Umno and Utusan will say," Anwar told a press conference on Wednesday.

"So I used the opportunity of course when asked (and referred to the election) petition (already filed) in court which showed massive evidence of electoral fraud, the indelible ink that was a blatant lie and the presence of, I also cautioned him, we believed some Indonesian nations were given voting rights. It (the meeting) was quite transparent. I then proceeded to Jakatra and met Jusuf Kalla (the former Indonesian deputy president) and I then clarified to him that it was not my intention not to keep my end (of a pre-elections pact). My agreement was in the first place predicated on ethical conduct of campaigning prior to the election, no no personal slander, access for all parties to the media - in short, free and fair elections. This was agreed to and we also said there must be smooth transition of power, a spirit of unity, malaise or witch-hunting. But did we have fair elections? Instead what we saw was the worst rigging and fraud in the history of this country."

Anwar also said he turned down an invitation to dinner with Jusuf as he had a 'prior engagement'.

"I know Najib had communications with Jusuf and Jusf invited me for dinner but I could not attend. I saw Jusuf after dinner," said Anwar.

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