‘Foreign courts should have ignored it’

KUALA LUMPUR: Claims by the so-called Sulu heirs should not have been entertained by the courts of other countries because there is no clause in the 1878 agreement that provides for any dispute over Sabah to be resolved with arbitration, says former attorney general Tan Sri Tommy Thomas.

He said it was disappointing that the courts of Spain, France and Luxembourg appeared to have not read the 1878 agreement signed by then Sulu Sultan Jamal Al Alam.