KUCHING, Sept. 16 -- The Pakatan Harapan (PH) adminisration is determined to restore the status of Sarawak and Sabah as equal partners to Peninsular Malaysia in the Federation of Malaysia, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said tonight.

He said this was shown when the Pakatan government tabled the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2019 in Parliament last April, but it failed to pass through for not getting the support of two-thirds of the total number of lawmakers.

"The government has also set up a Special Cabinet Committee on the review of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) and all its members consist of federal Cabinet Ministers and Chief Ministers of Sarawak and Sabah," he said in his speech at Malaysia Day celebration here.

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