{"id":195450,"date":"2022-10-13T21:47:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=195450"},"modified":"2022-10-13T21:47:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:47:32","slug":"pedra-branca-malaysian-govt-agrees-to-proceed-with-legal-action-at-icj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=195450","title":{"rendered":"Pedra Branca: Malaysian gov&#8217;t agrees to proceed with legal action at ICJ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212;\u00a0The Cabinet has agreed for Malaysia to proceed with legal action at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the dispute involving sovereignty over Pedra Branca, Middle Rocks\u00a0and South Ledge, Prime Minister\u00a0Ismail Sabri Yaakob said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the matter was agreed upon after hearing the presentation and proposals by the&nbsp;special task force to review laws relating to sovereignty over the disputed islets&nbsp;on Oct 7.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe meeting was informed&nbsp;on the possibility of negligence and error on the part of former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad when Malaysia missed the opportunity to file a review application against the ICJ judgment in 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2026and the request for interpretation of Batu Puteh (Pedra Branca), Batuan Tengah (Middle Rocks) and Tubir Selatan (South Ledge) after Dr Mahathir decided not to proceed with the application for review and interpretation of the judgment on June 11, 2018,\u201d&nbsp;he said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the special task force had also proposed that the government take&nbsp;appropriate action to defend the country&#8217;s sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212;\u00a0The Cabinet has agreed for Malaysia to proceed with legal action at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the dispute involving sovereignty over Pedra Branca, Middle Rocks\u00a0and South Ledge, Prime Minister\u00a0Ismail Sabri Yaakob said. He said the matter was agreed upon after hearing the presentation and proposals by the&nbsp;special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":177807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195450"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195451,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195450\/revisions\/195451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}