MA63: No need to make final report public - Borneo Post Online
KUALA LUMPUR: The government maintains its stand not to make the final report from the Cabinet special committee to review the implementation of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63), available to the public.
Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Sabah and Sarawak affairs) Datuk Hanifah Hajar Taib said this was because the document has been classified as official secret under the Official Secrets Act 1972.
“For the moment, the government maintains its stands that there is no need for the final report to be distributed to the public as the content is technical in nature and involves sensitive matters.
“As such, the status of the document remains as official secret and is to be treated as such as provided by the law,” she said.
She said this in her reply to a question from Chan Foong Hin (PH-Kota Kinabalu) on the status of the final report from the Cabinet special committee to review the implementation of MA63 during a special chamber session at the Dewan Rakyat yesterday.
Chan also asked about the status of 21 matters tabled in the report including four issues that are still being discussed, namely oil royalty and petroleum cash payments; oil minerals and oil fields; Territorial Sea Act 2012 [Act 750]; and state rights over the continental shelf.
Hanifah Hajar said discussions on the four matters are still ongoing and a special council would also be set up soon for that purpose.
“A joint committee consisting of members from the federal and state governments has also been set up to discuss issues on oil and gas. The committee is co-chaired by the Senior Minister (Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof, who is also Works Minister) and the Finance Minister (Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz) and MOF secretariat,” she said.
In December last year, former deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohamed Hanipa Maidin told the Dewan Negara that 17 out of 21 matters tabled by the Sarawak and Sabah governments at the Cabinet special committee meeting to review the implementation of MA63 had been jointly approved. — Bernama
Mycomments:
MA63 is null and void from its very beginning as far as
I know about the Chagos Island which was settled in the International Court of
Justice to be null and was returned to Mauritius accordingly. Sarawak and Sabah had no legal capacity to
sign the international treaty, either. I
am wondering what the so-called federal government and Sarawak government want
to make it so secretive and sensitive.
How it was formulated and done has become an open secret to the
Sarawakians and Sabahans who are concerned about the status of our nations,
Sabah and Sarawak. Our
self-determination can decide what we want Sarawak to stand as a nationa or as
a colonised state to the Malayan government.
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