France and Norway have offered their sophisticated military technology
for Malaysia to further advance its military modernisation programmes.
The offers were made during separate
meetings between Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and French President Francois
Hollande and Norwegian leader Jen Stoltenberg on the sidelines of the
Asia-Europe Summit.
Najib said Hollande, who asked
for the meeting, considered Malaysia as an important country and emphasised the
need to enhance and strengthen bilateral ties.
“Hollande said that France had
the capabilities to supply various civilian and military products to Malaysia
such as the Airbus and the Dassault Rafale fighter jets,” he told the Malaysian
media at the end of the first day of the summit.
Najib said Air France would be
flying directly to Kuala Lumpur International Airport from April and described
this as a good development.
On his meeting with Stoltenberg,
Najib said the Norwegian Prime Minister had offered Malaysia its ship-to-ship
missiles aside from the latest technology in the oil and gas sector.
“Norway has the latest capability
to double oil extraction rate and the use of sub-sea technology at a sea depth
of 1,000m in oil and gas extraction process and they want to share this with
Malaysia,” he said.
Najib, who also held bilateral
discussions with Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, said his
counterpart had invited him to attend the D-8 Summit on November 22.
News Desk
The Star
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