【Photo Diary】 (1) Visit to Malaysia in the Course of 4-Nation Tour

Published on June 6, 2022

I would like to share with you some of the photographs taken during my four-nation tour that took me to Malaysia, East Timor, Switzerland and Poland from May 16 to 29, 2022.

[May 17, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia]

 

Meeting with Mr. Anwar bin Ibrahim, Malaysia’s former deputy prime minister and now president of the opposition People’s Justice Party.

 

A meeting with Mr. Ahmad Azam Ab Rahman, special advisor to the Foreign Minister of Malaysia.

 

Meeting with researchers and academicians of Institut Darul Ehsan (IDE), a government think tank, and Universiti Selangor (UNISEL), Malaysia’s first state-owned university.


 

(To be continued)

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