KUALA LUMPUR: The government has agreed to drop two proposed amendments to the Federal Constitution pertaining to the citizenship of foundlings.

Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution said other proposed amendments related to citizenship laws will be tabled.

"I have presented to the Cabinet and all of the amendments were approved except on Section 19B and Section 14(1)(E)," he said after a post-cabinet meeting press conference, here, today.

Saifuddin said he will meet government backbenchers on Monday to brief them on the proposed amendments.

Yesterday, Saifuddin denied that proposed amendments would not affect foundlings from being granted citizenship, so long as their births were registered properly.

He said should a child's citizenship application be denied under Section 19B, another application can be made under Section 15A of the Federal Constitution.

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