The Maldives government on Monday rejected a Singapore court’s stay on the termination of an airport contract that had been given to a consortium of India’s GMR Infrastructure Ltd and a Malaysian company in 2010.
“The government’s decision is very clear. It is non-reversible and non-negotiable,” Masoon Imad, media secretary to the Maldives president, said in an email. “Our decision was based on legal advice we got from our lawyers in the UK and Singapore... We believe the judge was incorrect in interpreting the law. A court cannot issue such an injunction against a sovereign state.” Full story
