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China’s two-year intrusion into Sarawak waters
August 15, 2015
ALOR SETAR: Ships of China’s coast guard have been intruding into Malaysian waters off Sarawak for two years, a federal minister said today.
Shahidan Kassim said diplomatic notes had been sent each week in protest against the intrusion in the waters around Beting Patinggi Ali, about 90 nautical miles from the Miri shore.
Malaysia would continue to make diplomatic protests and work through diplomatic channels to ensure the ships left Malaysian waters, he said.
Shahidan, who is a minister in the prime minister’s department, has oversight over the coast guard or Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, and the National Security Council.
In June he accompanied senior officers of the Malaysian navy, the MMEA and the National Security Council on an aerial survey of the intrusion of Chinese coast guard ships at Beting Patinggi Ali.
China claims vast areas of the South China Sea and has declared its territorial waters extend as far south as just off the Borneo coast. China has also made claims over the strategic Spratly Islands and Paracel Islands, and has carried out extensive land reclamation for military bases.
The Chinese claims have sparked confrontations with neighbouring countries as well as the United States, whose Seventh Fleet sails regularly between its bases in Japan and the Middle East.
Shahidan said the intrusion by the foreign ships in the waters near Beting began two years ago and was still going on now.
“We have never received any official claims from them (China) and they said the island (Beting Patinggi Ali) belongs to them but the country is 4,000 km away,” he said, Bernama reported.
“We are taking diplomatic action but in whatever approach, they have to get out of our national waters,” he told reporters here today after opening an Umno meeting today.
“No parties should try to trespass the territorial right of this country,” he said.
China’s two-year intrusion into Sarawak waters | Free Malaysia Today
August 15, 2015
ALOR SETAR: Ships of China’s coast guard have been intruding into Malaysian waters off Sarawak for two years, a federal minister said today.
Shahidan Kassim said diplomatic notes had been sent each week in protest against the intrusion in the waters around Beting Patinggi Ali, about 90 nautical miles from the Miri shore.
Malaysia would continue to make diplomatic protests and work through diplomatic channels to ensure the ships left Malaysian waters, he said.
Shahidan, who is a minister in the prime minister’s department, has oversight over the coast guard or Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, and the National Security Council.
In June he accompanied senior officers of the Malaysian navy, the MMEA and the National Security Council on an aerial survey of the intrusion of Chinese coast guard ships at Beting Patinggi Ali.
China claims vast areas of the South China Sea and has declared its territorial waters extend as far south as just off the Borneo coast. China has also made claims over the strategic Spratly Islands and Paracel Islands, and has carried out extensive land reclamation for military bases.
The Chinese claims have sparked confrontations with neighbouring countries as well as the United States, whose Seventh Fleet sails regularly between its bases in Japan and the Middle East.
Shahidan said the intrusion by the foreign ships in the waters near Beting began two years ago and was still going on now.
“We have never received any official claims from them (China) and they said the island (Beting Patinggi Ali) belongs to them but the country is 4,000 km away,” he said, Bernama reported.
“We are taking diplomatic action but in whatever approach, they have to get out of our national waters,” he told reporters here today after opening an Umno meeting today.
“No parties should try to trespass the territorial right of this country,” he said.
China’s two-year intrusion into Sarawak waters | Free Malaysia Today
