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King receives RCI’s final report on Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge | Scoop
Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Ibrahim being presented with the final report by the RCI. – Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar Facebook pic, August 12, 2024
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King receives RCI’s final report on Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge

Commission members present Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Ibrahim with report at Istana Negara today

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4:58 PM MYT

 

KUALA LUMPUR – The royal commission of inquiry (RCI) into the government’s handling of Malaysia’s sovereignty over Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge has submitted its final report to Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Ibrahim.

The king announced the report’s submission on his Facebook page. The report was handed to the ruler by RCI chairman Tun Md Raus Sharif, with other commission members present at Istana Negara today.

The king in February had consented to the establishment of the commission to look at how Malaysia lost its claim to Pulau Batu Puteh when it did not pursue a review of the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) decision to award Singapore sovereignty over the island. 

The decision to drop the review was made when Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was prime minister, in 2018, two weeks before the government’s application for a review filed the previous year, was due to be heard.

Dr Mahathir, 99, has been blamed by political critics for losing Batu Puteh to Singapore.

However, law minister Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said has said the purpose of the RCI was to seek resolution and improve issues related to national sovereignty, rather than to assign blame to any party.

Dr Mahathir provided his testimony at a closed-door proceeding of the RCI, on June 12, but not before attempting to resist participation.

The former two-time prime minister said previously he would not attend RCI proceedings due to a conflict of interest with its chairman Raus.

He also claimed he was not allowed fair representation in RCI proceedings, besides wanting them to be held publicly instead of behind closed doors.

Dr Mahathir filed a judicial review to have proceedings held in public and for Raus’ recusal, but was denied both by the high court.

He has said that the decision not to pursue a review of ICJ’s ruling was not his alone, but made collectively by his cabinet in 2018.

He also said he disagreed with pursuing the review, as both Malaysia and Singapore had agreed to abide by the ICJ’s ruling.

“To ask for revision, an interpretation, doesn’t look good for a country that has promised to accept (the court’s decision)… you are then reneging,” Dr Mahathir said. – August 12, 2024

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