PM Anwar Asks Saudi Aramco To Invest In Malaysia's Terengganu

MARANG (Terengganu, Malaysia), Aug 10 (Bernama) -- Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has asked the world's largest oil and gas company, Saudi Aramco to invest in the Kemaman district of Malaysia’s east coast state, Terengganu.

He said Aramco chairman Yasir O. Al-Rumayyan had informed him that the company wanted to make Johor (the southern state) the hub for its expansion in the Southeast Asian region.

"But I said it's okay and I told him to go to Kemaman," he said at the local programme of Terengganu MADANI Unity Tour here Wednesday night.

Anwar said that when Malaysia’s King Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah performed the haj recently, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, informed that the country agreed to make Malaysia its largest investment hub in Southeast Asia.

"All this is not because of Anwar Ibrahim, but because of the cooperation of political parties of Pakatan Harapan, Barisan Nasional, Sabah and Sarawak. They know our current government is stable," he said. Sabah and Sarawak are east Malaysian states.

-- BERNAMA