EXCHANGE OF NOTES
BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND HIS HIGHNESS PADUKA SERI BAGINDA SULTAN AND YANG DI-PERTUAN OF BRUNEI TERMINATING THE SPECIAL TREATY RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE STATE OF BRUNEI
No. 1
The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to His Highness Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei
Your Highness,
British High Commission,
Bandar Seri Begawan,
Brunei.
7 January 1979.
I have the honour to refer to the discussions which have taken place between Your Highness and Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom con- cerning the termination of the special treaty relations between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the State of Brunei, and to the desire of Your Highness's Government that the State of Brunei should exercise its full international responsibility as a sovereign and independent State. The following conclusions were reached in the course of these discussions:
1. The existing special treaty relations between the United Kingdom and the State of Brunei, which are inconsistent with full international responsibility as a sovereign and independent State, shall terminate with effect from five years from 31 December 1978.
2. The Treaties signed on 18 December 1846(1) and 27 May 1847(2), the Agreement signed on 26 November 1856(3), the Declaration made by His Highness Sultan Abdul Mumin on 17 August 1878(4), the Agreement signed on 17 September 1888(5), the Agreement signed on 29 September 1959(6) as amended by the Agreement signed on 23 November 1971(7), and all the other agreements, engagements, undertakings and arrangements between the United Kingdom and the State of Brunei flowing from the special treaty relations between the two States shall terminate with effect from the same date, provided that:
(a) the termination of the said agreements of 18 December 1846 and 27 May 1847 shall not affect the status of Labuan and its dependencies in any way;
(1) Not published.
(2) Published in State Papers, vol. 35, p. 14. (3) Published in State Papers, vol. 65, p. 1170. (*) Published in State Papers, vol. 69, p. 18. (5) Published in State Papers, vol. 79, p. 240. (6) Published in State Papers, vol. 164, p. 38. () Miscellaneous No. 12 (1972), Cmnd. 4932.
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