{"id":13469,"date":"2022-03-12T11:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T03:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=13469"},"modified":"2022-03-12T11:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T03:23:52","slug":"king-grants-audience-to-japans-former-pm-shinzo-abe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=13469","title":{"rendered":"King grants audience to Japan\u2019s former PM Shinzo Abe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 — The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah granted an audience to former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is here for a three-day official visit as the special envoy of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, at Istana Negara today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comptroller of the Royal Household for Istana Negara Datuk Ahmad Fadil Shamsuddin said during the meeting which started at 3.30 pm, Al-Sultan Abdullah also conferred the Honorary Doctorate in Political Economics to Abe, in conjunction with the International Islamic University Malaysia\u2019s (IIUM) 36th Convocation Ceremony tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHis Majesty congratulates\u00a0His Excellency Shinzo Abe on the conferment of the Honorary Doctorate in Political Economics from IIUM.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHis Majesty also congratulates\u00a0His Excellency Shinzo Abe and the Japanese government on the\u00a040th anniversary of Malaysia\u2019s Look East Policy (LEP) and the 65th anniversary\u00a0of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Malaysia and Japan,\u201d<\/em> he said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also present at the conferment ceremony were Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Abdullah, Foreign Ministry secretary-general Tan Sri Muhammad Shahrul Ikram Yaakob, IIUM president Tan Sri Dr Mohd Daud Bakar, IIUM\u2019s 36th Convocation Organising Committee chairman Prof Dr Ahmad Faris Ismail as well as officials from the Japanese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad Fadil said this was Al-Sultan Abdullah\u2019s second meeting with Abe, after the first at the Imperial Palace, Tokyo when His Majesty attended the enthronement ceremony of Japan\u2019s 126th Emperor, Emperor Naruhito, on Oct 23, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad Fadil also said that Abe\u2019s special visit to this country reflected the close relationship and cooperation in various fields between Malaysia and Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe implementation of LEP over four decades has yielded huge benefits, especially in the aspects of human capital development, trade and investment between the two countries,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, Japan was Malaysia\u2019s fourth-largest trading partner with a bilateral trade value of RM149 billion (USD36 billion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of September 2021, Japan was the largest investor based on the number of projects implemented in the manufacturing sector with a total value of RM91.7 billion (USD28.2 billion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NMT<\/a> as reported by Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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