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Blog and Tweet  992018   Ng....Ng
STAR PRESS STATEMENT
President of State Reform Party (STAR) is shocked to read the latest statement by Law Minister Datuk Liew Vui Keong that there will be a Special Cabinet Committee to be set up in response to Mahathir’s call to revive the Agreement.

Soo says that Liew has no authority to deal with MA63 which is an International Treaty registered with United Nations. The Law Minister with his Special Cabinet Committee cannot deal in an international multilateral affair which requires the participation of the Governments of Britain, Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore.

MA63 has been negotiated, signed and sealed on 9th July 1963, but never delivered. The Treaty has remained on the shelf comatose for 55 years. A review cannot be done without all signatory nations – Britain, Malaya, Sarawak, Sabah and Singapore - going back to the negotiating table. To revive it by just setting up another committee is aimless and fruitless without the political will of the signatory nations.

The Federal government today only need to comply with the MA63 without need to revive, discuss, review or rectify. To suggest the need to do so is to hoodwink the people of Sarawak and Sabah and make a mockery of an international multilateral treaty

A dead document will not come alive again merely by setting up a Special Committee to sugar coat it. Trying to resurrect a defunct agreement of multiple breaches even one million times will not bring the kiss of life back to an invalid Treaty, says Soo.

Soo asks Datuk Liew if MA is still valid, in which case if it still valid, all the Federal government need to do is to comply with everything that is laid down in the Agreement. There is no need for further discussion, review and rectification.

On the other hand, if MA63 is no longer valid or important, there is no need to try to resurrect a defunct Agreement, save for termination and dissolution.

Lina Soo
4/9/2018