KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - US President Barack Obama will visit Malaysia in
October to deliver the keynote address to an international
entrepreneurship forum, organisers said Wednesday.
The trip, which is yet to be officially confirmed by either
government, would be the first to the multiracial Muslim-majority nation
by a sitting US president since Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1966.
Obama, who spent part of his childhood in neighbouring Indonesia,
will be in the region for a pair of summits in Bali and Brunei ahead of
his scheduled October 11 address to the 4th Global Entrepreneurship
Summit.
- The forum was launched by Obama and first held in 2010 in Washington.
- "The presence of President Barack Obama himself is a boost for the country," Irwan Serigar Abdullah, secretary-general of the Malaysian finance ministry and head of the forum's organising committee, told reporters.
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