Daily Tribune‘Our desire to recover the leased territory of North Borneo (Sabah) was already submitted for legal disposition to the Philippine Government as national contract in 1963. However, the resolution to the matter is only placed by the Philippine Government at the backburner since 1972’
35th Sultan Phugdalun Kiram II in blue Bangsa Suluk attire alongside Jadja Nawal Tan Kiram, his wife. To the Sultan’s left are Datu Maharadja Adindah Alinapia Kiram, now 1st in line to the throne, and Datu Bandahara Shaifuddin Kiram, now 3rd in line to the throne.
Photo courtesy of the Sultanate of Sulu
The Sultanate of Sulu has invoked the 1915 Carpenter Kiram treaty in seeking US endorsement in the $25 suit against Malaysia.
In an email sent through the US Embassy in Manila 35th Sulu Sultan and nine others Sultanate leaders asked President Donald Trump’s help in pursuing their case against Malaysia before the United Nations.
The email, coursed through the US Embassy in Manila is seeking the endorsement of the United States Re: 2004 UN Petition of the Sulu Sultanate submitted to the United Nations for deliberation in the UN General Assembly
“With esteemed honor, the Bangsa Suluk People, the Ancestral Constituents of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo, have always looked upon the United States of America as our protector and benefactor,” it said.
The Sultanate manifested that the treaty guaranteed their historic connections to the United States of America.
They are invoking the historic documents for re-opening of the 2004 UN Petition submitted to the United Nations by his predecessor, Datu Raja Muda Agbimuddin Kiram, in that aforesaid year.
“Our desire to recover the leased territory of North Borneo (Sabah) was already submitted for legal disposition to the Philippine Government as national contract in 1963. However, the resolution to the matter is only placed by the Philippine Government at the backburner since 1972,” the letter said.
‘The Sultanate reiterated its position to repossess and seek redress from Malaysia’s illegal occupation and administration of our ancestral jurisdiction and rights over North Borneo leased to the British North Borneo Company in the Nature of A Commercial Lease Agreement. In 1963, the United Kingdom turned it over to Malaysia and named it as a New State of Sabah upon the formation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963, rights which were not those of a sovereign, but those of a lease that emanated from the Lease Contract of 1878.
“Aligned with our demand to repossess North Borneo now called Sabah, we charged the Government of Malaysia for $25 billion payment for the unilateral and illegal development of North Borneo’s (Sabah) natural resources and land use since 1963.”
Sultanate said in view of the current regional security concerns in Southeast Asia, it is their desire to accelerate the just and peaceful settlement of this disputes between Malaysia and the Sultanate of Sulu ancestral territory.
