KENYATAAN MEDIA YB SENATOR DR SYED HUSIN ALI 05 MAY 2010 DI DEWAN NEGARA

Emergency motion to debate the issue of handing over the two blocks offshore oil production to Indonesia, has been rejected by the President of the Senate by letter bertarikh May 5, 2010.

Matter involving national interests and national sovereignty, and must proceed immediately. Clarification on this issue is very important and urgent as it involves questions of sovereignty and may also involve the question of national security. But such proposals have been rejected by the President of the Senate.

I feel great regret and fear of what's happening. This is so because the matter involves the issue of the Constitution, where boundary changes have been made without taking into consideration of Article 2 of the Constitution. This is an important issue involving the question of the dignity and sovereignty of the country. Parliament has set aside the decision of the submission, and this is a very serious breach of the Constitution.

Government's decision may be viewed as an act ultra vires (illegal) and contempt of the Constitution. This is an action that can not be taken lightly as possible tomorrow the government will ignore the other Articles of the Constitution and act as they please. In this case I think the Supreme Court should intervene to correct the errors that have occurred since the Court is the guardian of the Constitution. If Parliament has been dropping in hand, the Court required to examine the collision of this Constitution. If not, Malaysia It is facing the crisis of the Constitution, democracy and the separation of powers is a concern.

In the report Sunday Times May 4, 2010, Wisma Putra has clarified that the submission of two oil blocks to Brunei through the exchange of letters between Malaysia and Brunei is in line with international law, but since when persoalanya Convention of Association of the United Nations on the Law of Marine (UNCLOS) in 1982 to overcome the Federal Constitution, the supreme law of our country?. Explanation is not acceptable at all. Why set aside the provisions of the Constitution?