SEPANG: Singapore’s deputy prime minister and finance minister Lawrence Wong arrived here today for a four-day working visit to Malaysia until Wednesday.
This is his first official visit to Malaysia after being appointed as deputy prime minister in June this year.
He flew in from Singapore via a commercial aircraft and was received on arrival at KLIA by foreign ministry chief of protocol Aini Atan, chief of ceremony of the Malaysian government Rozainor Ramli and Singapore high commissioner to Malaysia Vanu Gopala Menon.
Wong was given a royal salute at the arrival hall of KLIA before inspecting a guard-of-honour mounted by 32 officers and personnel from the First Battalion of the Royal Ranger Regiment.
During his visit, Wong is scheduled to have an audience with Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah at Istana Negara.
He is also scheduled to call on Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, as well as meet defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein, finance minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz, and Bank Negara Malaysia governor Nor Shamsiah Yunus.
Singapore is Malaysia’s second-largest trading partner and the largest within Asean, with a total trade value amounting to RM267.11 billion in 2021, an increase of 25.2% compared to the recorded value in 2020. - FMT
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