UN General Assembly
1963

148. I should like to say one final word. In spite of all the steps taken to ascertain the wishes of the people of the two territories, since confirmed by the report of the Secretary-General, it is a matter for regret that the representative of Indonesia, in his second intervention on 30 September 1963 [1221st meeting], permitted himself the statement that Malaya, Sarawak, Sabah and Singapore were forced into Malaysia. 149. In the Malaysian delegation sitting here, there is a representative of Sarawak and there is a representative of Sabah. I am sure representatives will readily appreciate it when I say that these two representatives take the strongest exception to the statement of the representative of Indonesia, which is nothing more or less than a gratuitous insult to the peoples of Sarawak and Sabah in particular and of Malaysia in general.