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Sabah Issue
« on: May 08, 2019, 09:13:34 AM »
Palace to brief senators on Sabah issue

       MANILA, Sep. 2, 2002 (PNA) -- Malacanag has invited administration
and opposition legislators to a Palace briefing on the Sabah claim
issue and the alleged abuse of

Filipino deportees by Malaysian authorities on Friday September 6.

       Senate President Franklin Drilon said the invitation was
extended to all senators including the foreign affairs committee of
the House of Representatives.

       Drilon said the Palace briefing will be held on Friday at 1
p.m.

       On the Sabah claim, Senate Majority Leader Loren Legarda said
it will be worth to study the historical, social, economic, and
military implications of pressing the Philippine claim to Sabah.

       She advised that the issue be tackled in the most sober and
academic manner and avaoid sabre rattling. She likewise cautioned
against "sweeping the issue under the rug."

       "We must make sure the move is done not to antagonize our
neigbors but to be able to get to historical truths.  We must seek
out historical truths and know the basis of all these claims whether
it is beneficial to us or not, but never to create more trouble than
we already have," she said.

       For his part, Sen. Ramon Magsaysay said he would like to
support President Arroyo's stand that the Sabah claim should not be
put all together at the same time with the issue of our Filipino
deportees because this only complicates the matter.

      Magsaysay, who chairs the senate committee on national defense
and security said the Sabah claim issue per se "should be set aside
momentarily as we resolve the ill treatment of illegal migrant
Filipinos in Malaysia.

      "I am not saying that Sabah is a non-issue, but that can be
taken up at some other time," he said.

      On the other hand, Sen. Manny Villar said the Senate will
continue to conduct its own hearing on the Sabah claim as well as the
issue of the alleged inhuman treatment of Filipino deportees by
Malaysian authorities.

      Villar, chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations
said it is high time the government reviews its foreign relations
with Malaysia.

      In pursuing the Sabah claim, he said "you cannot change
history, either Sabah is ours or not and none of us can change
history."

      The move, he said, "does not mean we want trouble."

      "I am not saying at this point in time, that we have to
immediately pursue this claim.  We are conducting hearings to enable
us to be enlightened on the issue and what course of action to
undertake just in case," he said.  (PNA)

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