She said that Putrajaya should talk to Filipino President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr to drop his country’s Republic Act 5446 which was enacted in 1968 by his father who was the president then.
It was amended in 2009, but a Philippines supreme court decision said Republic 9522 or the Baselines Law still did not relinquish the Philippines' claim to Sabah. She was commenting on the discussions by prominent speakers at the just concluded International Arbitration Colloquium 2023 held here on July 4.
Legal experts who spoke also said that controversial Spanish arbitrator Dr Gonzalo Stampa had acted illegally in asking Malaysia to pay US$14.94bil in his arbitration Feb 28, 2022, award for the eight Filipinos claiming to be heirs of the defunct Sultanate.