National sovereignty 'now more relevant'

BANGI: Developing countries must not buy into the West’s suggestion that the principle of non-intervention and national sovereignty is “no longer relevant” at this time and age. 

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the rational for such an argument was that in the era of globalisation and interdependence, borders and territorial control had no more meaning because trade and investment by multinationals had now gone international.