KOTA KINABALU: The final resolution of the US$14.9bil Sulu arbitration dispute has created the political basis to bring the long-standing Philippines claim to Sabah to a definitive end, says former chief minister Datuk Yong Teck Lee.
He said the Philippines’ position had long rested on the 1878 Sulu claim, and with that claim now proven "an exercise in absolute futility" through final decisions by the Paris Court of Appeal and other European courts, there was no remaining legitimacy to sustain Manila’s assertion.
