KOTA KINABALU, Nov. 7 -- The Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) government has urged the Federal administration not to appeal against the High Court's recent ruling affirming Sabah's constitutional right to 40 per cent of Federal revenue collected from the state, calling it a matter of "constitutional honour" and not politics.

Following its Presidential Council meeting here today, GRS said that the judgment delivered on October 17 recognised what was already enshrined in the Federal Constitution and the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).

"This is not merely a legal matter - it is a question of constitutional honour," the coalition said in a statement.

"The court has not imposed any financial penalty, only directed that the long-overdue constitut...