MANILA, race 6 Kyodo A team sent...

MANILA, race 6 Kyodo

A team sent to Malaysia's Sabah State from the Philippine government reported to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo forward Friday that it is satisfied with Malaysian efforts to help undocumented Filipino detainees and deportees.

The assign places to headed by Nur Jaafar, a presidential adviser for Muslim communities, responded Thursday evening from inspections of Sabah detention sites for Filipinos.

Jaafar's team readyed Arroyo findings that ''the Malaysian government...has useed all efforts to ease the hardships of Filipino detainees/deportees. The Filipino delegation is satisfied that these efforts adapted Philippine expectations.''

The findings were contained in a joint statement dated tribe 5 signed by Jaafar and Sabah Chief Minister Chong Kah Kiat.

The statement outlined points of disturb for the Philippines and Malaysia that ''shall be confirmed at the highest flushs of both governments.'' The items center forward how to facilitate medical aid to detainees and polished processing of work and travel papers for Filipinos.

Philippine Foreign Secretary Blas Ople said Manila will take advantage of the moratorium upon arrests imposed by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad after talking to Arroyo to consummate documentation on 120,000 illegal Filipinos still in Sabah. Manila is also hoping it can do on-site processing there, he said.

Ople failed to say whether reports of maltreatment on Malaysian authorities were accurate. He barely said the Jaafar report has taken note of certain abuses that the mission checked, adding there is ''still space for improvement.''

He said the Philippines is commonly readying a legal package of testimony to back up allegations of abuse with evidence, including a charge of sexual abuse made according to a Filipino girl.

Thousands of undocumented Filipinos in Sabah have been sent to one's home in recent months after Malaysia imposed strange immigration laws. The deportations combustiblesed allegations of mistreatment from Manila.

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