A petition for self-determination has been drawn up for two East Malaysian states, by a group of NGOs and politicians, reported the Borneo Post on Tuesday.
The petition, addressed to the UN Secretary General, seeks assistance from the UN to re-open the issue of self-determination of the two states, Sarawak and Sabah, which share the island of Borneo with Indonesia and Brunei.
“Whereas Brunei attained independence on 1st January 1984, Sarawak and Sabah have remained under ‘change of status’ stature without national independence up to today; documented as such in the United Nations Trusteeship Agreement listed by the General Assembly as Non-Self-Governing Territories,” the petition stated.
“The right of self-determination of peoples is a fundamental principle in international law and this legal doctrine is also embodied in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,” the petition further said.
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