KOTA KINABALU: Senior
practicing lawyer Yunof
Maringking said he totally
disagrees with the statement
made by former Sabah Archives
director Datuk Datu Tigabelas
Datu Zainal Abidin that the
“Twenty Points” document
was just a memorandum of
conditions and not an actual
agreement.
Yunof said it is everybody’s
knowledge that the 20 Points is
the basis for then North Borneo,
now known as Sabah, to join
together with Sarawak and
Singapore to make the
formation of Malaysia
materialize on July 9, 1963.
“To say that it is not an
agreement is misguided and
misleading. Without the 20
Points being accepted, the North
Borneo government would not
have signed the Malaysia
Agreement on the 9th of July
1963,” he said.
Yunof said there is no question
that the 20 Points has indeed
been incorporated in the Federal
Constitution.
However, he claimed that the
Federal Government has ignored
the spirit of the 20 Points even
though it has been incorporated
in the Federal Constitution.
“To say the 20 points
promote British interestd is
nothing more than childish talk,
“ he asserted.
www.theborneopost.com/2012/06/13/20-points-an-agreement-says-lawyer/
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