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KUALA LUMPUR: The findings of the Royal Commission on the controversial Datuk V. K. Lingam tape should be made public, said commission chairman retired Chief Judge of Malaya Tan Sri Haidar Mohamed Noor.However, he said this was his personal view and the decision whether to make the reports public was with the Prime Minister.Haidar handed the Royal Commission of Inquiry report to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin at the Istana Negara at 9.30am yesterday.

Four recommendations were made in four volumes of report running up to 186 pages, he said in a telephone interview yesterday.
The commission secretary will also submit the report to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi who will set a date for it to be discussed in the Cabinet, Haider added.

Bar Council president Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan said it was important that the findings be made public immediately. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said at a press conference after the Umno supreme council meeting yesterday that he had yet to read the report.
Asked whether he would make the report public, he said: “I haven’t seen it yet so how can I make a decision?”
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, who is de facto Law Minister, said the inquiry was of great public interest.
He said as the public already had knowledge of most of the statements and exhibits, he was sure the Prime Minister “will take this into account in determining whether to make the report public.”