KUCHING, April 5 — Tupong State Assemblyman Fazzrudin Abdul Rahman today said that Malaysia must protect its sovereignty over the disputed waters around Luconia Shoals or what is...
KUCHING, April 5 — Tupong State Assemblyman Fazzrudin Abdul Rahman today said that Malaysia must protect its sovereignty over the disputed waters around Luconia Shoals or what is known as Beting Patinggi Ali, which is about 80 nautical miles from Sarawak’s coastline.
“This must be maintained for the benefit of the nation and Sarawak,” Fazzrudin, who is also Sarawak Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg’s chief political secretary, said in a statement. He was commenting on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's recent statement that Malaysia is open to holding talks with China on its oil and gas claims in the South China Sea but would not back down from its own territorial claims.
He said since Luconia Shoals is only 80 nautical miles from the coastline of Sarawak, it is within the Exclusive Economic Zone parameters that extend 200 nautical miles from the country’s coastline based on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982. He recalled that in the past, there have been several reported encounters by Petronas operating oil and gas fields in the South China Sea within Malaysia's EEZ with Chinese vessels.
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