Najib’s Kazakhstan visit was for daughter’s wedding claims unfounded — Foreign Ministry

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KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s visit to Kazakhstan was to fulfil his acceptance of a long-standing invitation of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev to visit the country, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday.

The ministry’s Department of Information and Public Diplomacy in a statement to Bernama yesterday refuted Malaysiakini’s June 7 report titled ‘PM’s use of public funds for wedding trip morally wrong’.

It said claims by some quarters that the visit was for the wedding of the Prime Minister’s daughter was totally unfounded.

The statement clarified that Najib’s visit to Kazakhstan on June 5 and 6 was also the Prime Minister’s first official visit to the country and reciprocated the visit by Nazarbayev to Malaysia in June 2006.

It said during the visit, Najib had paid a courtesy call on Nazarbayev and also held bilateral consultations with Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov.

“The visit did not just elevate the bilateral relations between the two countries but had also generated many business opportunities for Malaysian business community,” it said. — Bernama