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The Malaysia Agreement, [a] or the Agreement relating to Malaysia between United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Federation of Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore (MA63) was a legal document which agreed to combine North Borneo (Sabah), Sarawak, and Singapore with the existing states of Malaya, [3] the resulting union being named Malaysia.
The agreement has been further supplementary to the 1962 agreement. The Separation Agreement signed between Singapore and Malaysia on 7 August 1965 guaranteed the water agreements from 1961 and 1962 and grant Singapore rights to the use of water originating on the Malaysia side of border till 2061.
A referendum on the terms of integration into the Federation of Malaya was held in Singapore on 1 September 1962. There were three options. At the time of the referendum, Singapore was a self-governing country since 1959, although the British Empire still controlled external relations.
21 March 1962: At a meeting of the Greater Malaysia Committee there was agreement that it would be preferable to wait for the Cobbold Commission, which had been tasked with assessment of support for the proposal in North Borneo and Sarawak, to complete its report, in order to consider its findings before a decision was made on the federation of ...
On 31 July 1962, an agreement was signed between British prime minister Harold Macmillan and the prime minister of Malaya Tunku Abdul Rahman that anticipated the formation of Malaysia by 31 August 1963 with a proposed initial framework of state constitutions of North Borneo and Sarawak as shown in annex and appendices. Lord Lansdowne later ...
The Proclamation of Malaysia (Malay: Pemasyhuran Malaysia Jawi: ڤمشهوران مليسيا ) was a statement, written in English and Malay (in the Jawi script), that declared the merger of the Federation of Malaya with the State of Singapore and the British crown colonies of North Borneo and Sarawak into the new Federation of Malaysia, following the enactment of the Malaysia Agreement ...
The Commission of Enquiry, North Borneo and Sarawak, 1961-1962: Signatories: Lord Cobbold Wong Pow Nee Ghazali Shafie Anthony Abell David Watherston: Purpose: The formation of Malaysia, 1961–1963: Full text; Report of the Commission of Enquiry, North Borneo and Sarawak, 1962 at Wikisource
The Sarawak Insurgency began after the Brunei Revolt in 1962 and the SCO would fight alongside the Bruneian rebels and Indonesian forces during the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] The SCO and the Bruneian rebels supported and propagated the unification of all British Borneo territories to form an independent leftist North ...