THE Sultanate of Sulu will not support passage of the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), which aims to create a new autonomous region in Mindanao, because it believes that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) would drop the sultanate’s Sabah claim in exchange for Malaysia’s support for the creation of a Bangsamoro government.

Abraham Idjirani, spokesman for the Sultanate of Sulu, told The Manila Times on Friday that the sultanate views with “cautious pessimism” the Bangsamoro law because of the “ambiguous objective” of the proposed measure.