MFA Press Statement: Visit by Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean to Kuala Lumpur, Kuching, and Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, 4 to 9 September 2018

Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean is on a working visit to Kuala Lumpur, Kuching, and Kota Kinabalu from 4 to 9 September 2018. DPM Teo is accompanied by Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Communications and Information and Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, Sim Ann, and Chairperson of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Home Affairs and Law, Christopher De Souza.

DPM Teo called on Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Women, Family and Community Development Datuk Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail in Putrajaya today. They reaffirmed the warm and mutually beneficial relations between Singapore and Malaysia. Both Deputy Prime Ministers also agreed that both countries should continue to work closely together across a wide range of areas, including in strengthening social cohesion, enhancing people-to-people ties, and promoting security cooperation.

  DPM Teo will be hosted to dinner by Minister of Finance Lim Guan Eng this evening. DPM Teo will call on Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and meet Minister of Defence Mohamad Sabu, as well as other senior Malaysian political and business leaders, tomorrow.

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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

SINGAPORE

4 SEPTEMBER 2018