Minister: Malaysia, Vietnam to sign MoU on encroachment
Foreign Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah said that Malaysia and Vietnam have agreed to find a solution to the perennial issue of encroachment by the latter’s fishermen of Malaysia’s waters. — Picture by Mukhriz Hazim
He said the problem had become a major encumbrance for Malaysia in that lockups to detain the suspects and depots to keep seized fishing boats were full. Saifuddin said based on statistics from Malaysia’s enforcement agencies, 748 trawlers and 7,203 fishermen from Vietnam were detained between 2006 and early May, 2019.
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