KUALA LUMPUR: Detractors are wrong to claim that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s recent official visit to Saudi Arabia was not fruitful just because he did not meet King Salman Abdul Aziz Al-Saud and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, according to analysts.
One of them, Dr Mazlan Ali, senior lecturer of Perdana Centre, Razak Technology and Informatics Faculty at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia , said that most importantly the prime minister had made the three-day visit at the invitation of the highest leadership of Saudi Arabia.
He said it was not out of the ordinary for King Salman, the Custodian of Islam’s Two Holy Sites, to change his schedule, especially in the month of Ramadan. Prof Dr Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani of Universiti Utara Malaysia’s School of Politics and International Relations shared Dr Mazlan’s view, saying last-minute changes to the itinerary of a visit were normal, especially if the host country had to attend to more urgent matters."It is not unusual if there were circumstances or emergencies forcing a change in schedule at the last minute,” he added.
Datuk Dr Mohammad Agus Yusoff, Community Communications Department director-general in the Prime Minister’s Department, said in a statement that Anwar’s visit had achieved success, even in economic terms, despite his not meeting the country’s top leaders."Is it a failure just because Anwar did not get to meet King Salman and the Crown Prince or are there more substantive arguments? In this matter, the prime minister has given his reasons,” he said.
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