KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said will head the challenge against claims by the so-called Sulu heirs on Sabah and Malaysia's foreign assets in France and Europe, says Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir.
"The government has decided to delegate the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department to take action and go to Europe to handle these cases.
This, he said, includes the Malaysian legal team scouring archives here and in the Philippines and London for documents on the matter. In the incident earlier this week where French bailiffs attempted to enforce a seizure order on three Paris properties owned by the Malaysian Government, Zambry said that Wisma Putra has since issued a diplomatic protest note to France over the matter"This is because any area belonging to an embassy is governed by the Vienna Convention and you can't go into it," he said when responding to a question raised by Sim Tze Tzin .
Meanwhile, Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal suggested that the government put a stop to such claims"once and for all" by taking the case to the International Court of Justice . Last month, Luxembourg court bailiffs issued fresh seizure orders for two PETRONAS companies – PETRONAS Azerbaijan and PETRONAS South Caucus in a similar effort.
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