Malaysia will not recognise or entertain any claim on Sabah: Foreign ministry

From the New Straits Times (Mar 1): Malaysia will not recognise or entertain any claim on Sabah: Foreign ministry

KUALA LUMPUR: The government yesterday reiterated its position that Malaysia does not recognise nor will it entertain any claim by any party on Sabah. 

The Foreign Ministry said yesterday it had called the charge d’affaires of the Philippine embassy in Malaysia, Maria Antonina M. Mendoza-Oblena, over a statement made by Philippine Vice-President Jejomar Binay that he would pursue claims on Sabah.

“Sabah is recognised by the United Nations and the international community as part of Malaysia since joining the federation on Sept 16, 1963,” the ministry said in a statement.

Binay, one of five candidates left in this year’s presidential election in the Philippines, had recently been reported as vowing to pursue the country’s territorial claims over Sabah should he be elected to office.

“We will pursue our claim there... (Sabah) is ours,” Binay had reportedly told reporters while campaigning in Quezon province.

Jejomor is a candidate of the United Nationalist Alliance, the same party for whom self-styled Sulu princess Jacel Kiram is a senatorial candidate.

Jacel’s father, who claimed to be the sultan of the defunct sultanate of Sulu, was the man who launched the 2013 attack on eastern Sabah which became known as the Lahad Datu incursion.

The incursion by Sulu gunmen was eventually thrown back, but not before 10 Malaysian security forces personnel were killed.

Jacel became known to Malaysians last year when pictures of her and Lembah Pantai member of parliament Nurrul Izzah Anwar surfaced on social media.

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