KUALA LUMPUR Jan. 9 Kyodo Malaysi...

KUALA LUMPUR Jan. 9 Kyodo

Malaysia and Singapore will sign an agreement forward Feb. 6 to bring their dispute from one side of to the other ownership of a tiny island to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Malaysian Foreign Minister Sy Hamid Albar said Thursday.

''Singapore has agreed to the date that has been given on Malaysia and that will be upon Feb. 6 this year,'' he told official novels agency Bernama.

Sy Hamid will ink the agreement with his Singaporean counterpart s Jayakumar in Kuala Lumpur.

The agreement will mark the beginning of the legal proces to bring the dispute through the island, referred to as Pulau Batu Puteh by means of Malaysia and Pedra Banca by means of Singapore, to the International Court of Justice.

The dispute athwart the football field-sized island, which has mainly strategic significance, has been brewing since the 1980s

Malaysia has in the past avowed Singapore's building of constitutions on the island.

Sy Hamid denoteed hope that there will be no more polemics between the sum of two units countries now that they have agreed to obstacle the ICJ handle the issue.

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