In
July 1963, an important agreement was signed at the Commonwealth Relations
Office in Malborough House, London. Representatives of the British government,
the Federation of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore, signed the agreement
establishing the Federation of Malaysia.
According
to the National Archives of Malaysia, approval to form Malaysia was obtained on
31 August 1963.
However,
the establishment of Malaysia which was planned on that date had to be
postponed due to the fact that the United Nations Secretary reports could only
be completed on 14 September 1963. Malaysia was declared on 16 September.
The
initiative started two years earlier when Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj. the
Prime Minister of the Federation of Malaya proposed the establishment of
Malaysia in his speech at the Conference of Foreign Journalists Association of
Southeast Asia at the Adelphi Hotel in Singapore on 27 May 1961.
The National Archives provides the following timeline on its website:
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