M'sia-S'pore ministerial meeting postponed over 'intrusion into S'pore waters'


  • Nation
  • Saturday, 12 Jan 2019

JOHOR BARU: The annual Malaysia-Singapore Joint Ministerial Committee for Iskandar Malaysia (JMCIM), which is scheduled to be held over the next few days, has officially been postponed over what Singapore claimed was an intrusion by the Johor Mentri Besar into its territorial waters.

A Singapore foreign ministry spokesman in a brief media statement said: "The intrusion by Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Osman Sapian into Singapore Territorial Waters off Tuas on Jan 9, 2019 made the 14th JMCIM meeting untenable.

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