Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, speaking from Russia where he is on an official trip, says Malaysia's exploration activities were within its territory and were not intended to be provocative or hostile towards China
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Anwar, speaking from Russia where he is on an official trip, said Malaysia’s exploration activities were within its territory and were not intended to be provocative or hostile towards China, with whom it has friendly relations. Malaysia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday it would investigate the leak of a classified diplomatic note from the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Under international law, an EEZ does not denote sovereignty, but grants a country sovereign rights to extract natural resources from those waters. “We have said that we will not transgress other people’s borders. That is our stringent policy and principles,” he said.
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