FORMER MALAYSIAN PM ABDULLAH ELECTED TO THE BOARD OF BOAO FORUM FOR ASIA

KUALA LUMPUR, April 10 (Bernama) -- Former Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad
Badawi was Friday elected to the board of Boao Forum for Asia (BFA).

Besides Abdullah, eight other newly-elected members are former Japanese
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin,
Singapore Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson, Li & Fung Group Chairman Victor K. Fung, China's Hainan Vice Governor
Jiang Sixian, former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Mitsubishi
Corporation Chairman Mikio Sasaki.

Their nominations were approved at the BFA board meeting held before the
forum's three-day annual conference which started Friday in Boao in China's
southern province of Hainan, according to a statement from Abdullah's office.

Abdullah, who is in China to attend the forum, also met China's Vice
President Xi Jinping today.

Abdullah will be one of the panellists for the session "Beyond Chiang
Mai Initiative: Regional Financial Cooperation in Asia" on Sunday.

This year's BFA annual conference, themed "Green Recovery: Asia's Realistic
Choice for Sustainable Growth", attracts nearly 2,000 delegates from Asia and
other parts of the world.

Established in 2001, the forum is a pan-Asian dialogue on issues affecting
Asia and the world.

-- BERNAMA



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