evidence: In addition, two submerged systems, the James Shoal and the Luconia Shoals, lie within Malaysia’s claimed continental shelf region, but are claimed by China. [...] – Deputy minister in charge of legal affairs, 1983 "Swallow Reef [Terumbu Layang-Layang in Malay] belongs to Malaysia as it falls within the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone." – Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, 1995 "Erica Reef and Investigator Shoal belong to Malaysia and not the Philippines, and…Malaysia therefore has the right to build structures on these maritime features….If the Philippines resorts to aggressive action it will lead to tension but we find that they will not resort to this….The Spratlys issue should be resolved as a multilateral problem as this had been agreed to at ASEAN meetings."