KUCHING: The Advocates Association of Sarawak (AAS) is forming a task force to assist the State government in claiming back the State’s rights in context of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).
This was said by Assistant Minister for Law, State-Federal Relations, and Project Monitoring, Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghazali, at the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) building after a meeting with the Chief Minister here yesterday.
“They intend to form a task force to look into the matter to assist the State government and the Chief Minister has consented to that. We will work together,” she said.
AAS president, Ranbir Singh Sangha, gave his assurance that they would assist in any way that they can.
“In regards to the State’s rights, we are willing to assist,” he told reporters after the meeting.
Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth, and Sports, Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah added that amidst the situation, there was beauty in seeing all the lawyers of Sarawak joining forces with them on this matter.
“Some of them came up with ideas on how to approach the subject and the Chief Minister was very acceptable to that.
“There’s really no fixed outcome as we just had a friendly discussion which reflected the Sarawakians’ lawyers views on our rights,” said Karim.
He also revealed that it was up to the Chief Minister and State Attorney General to decide on further actions and the lawyers would also have their own separate discussions.
