SARAWAK will send a team of lawyers to London to study the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) for any references to the state’s rights, Bernama reported yesterday.

The national news agency quoted Chief Minister Abang Johari Openg as saying this at a Hari Raya event oraganised by his Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu in Sibu on Friday.

Abang Johari did not disclose when the team would leave for London or how long it would be there.

He said the team would be led by Law, Federal-State Relations and Project Monitoring assistant minister Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghazali.

“Indeed, we will continue with Tok Nan’s (the late chief minister Adenan Satem) efforts to retrieve our rights as embodied in the Malaysia Agreement.

“That’s why we are sending Sharifah Hasidah and a legal team to London to look for and get the references.

“This agreement is not simply an agreement; we want to get the facts right because if we want to make a claim, we must do our homework, otherwise we are just shooting at the target without hitting it,” he added.

Abang Johari said the state government required a suitable approach in developing Sarawak in step with the times.

He expressed confidence that with the support of the state cabinet, and the people, efforts to develop Sarawak would bear fruit that all parties could be proud of. – July 2, 2017.