OFFICIAL PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT CIRCULAR CONCERNING SABAH

MALACANANG CIRCULAR 2008 CONCERNING SABAH: Guidelines on matters pertaining to North Borneo (Sabah). Unless otherwise revoked, we assume the guidelines are still in place.

The following official guideline -- Section 1 -- alone is already all-encompassing, i.e., that all official agencies of the Republic are prohibited from mentionning any reference to Sabah being a part of Malaysia.

Section 1: No Department, agency or instrumentality of the Philippine Government hall make any act or statement expressing or implying, directly or indirectly, any recognition of a foreign state's sovereignty over North Borneo (Sabah) or non-recognition of Philippine title or historial and legal rights to the same.