Tuesday July 8, 2008
Rudd won’t meet Anwar on KL visit
PETALING JAYA: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has decided not to meet PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
The Australian's online edition yesterday reported that he decided on this after seeking advice last week from the Foreign Affairs Department and the Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur.
Rudd will be arriving in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday on his first visit to Malaysia since becoming Prime Minister.
He had originally considered meeting Anwar and PKR president Datin Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
The news portal quoted a spokesman for Rudd as saying that Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith would meet Anwar instead.
There had been diplomatic rifts between the two countries due to outspoken Australian support for Anwar during his trial and imprisonment 10 years ago.
Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard had then declared Anwar’s conviction to be political and that the Malaysian judiciary was not independent.
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