SYRIAN PRIME MINISTER ARRIVES

SEPANG, Jan 6 (Bernama) -- Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Otri arrived
here Tuesday for a four-day official visit to Malaysia to further enhance
bilateral ties between the two countries.

Deputy International Trade and Industry Ministry Datuk Liew Vui Keong
greeted the Syrian leader when his private jet landed at the KL International
Airport here at 4pm.

Otri will visit the Islamic Arts Museum in Kuala Lumpur Tuesday night.

On Wednesday he will visit the Petronas Twin Towers, the world's tallest
twin towers, in Kuala Lumpur before attending a welcoming ceremony at Dataran
Perdana (Perdana Square) in the new administrative capital of Putrajaya.

He will then meet his Malaysian counterpart, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, at the
Prime Minister's Office in Putrajaya before both leaders lead their respective
delegations for a meeting at the same venue.

Abdullah wil host a dinner for him Wednesday night.

On Thursday, Otri is scheduled to have an audience with the Malaysian King
Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin at Istana Negara (National Palace) in the morning and
address captains of industries from Malaysia during a luncheon before visiting
the Kuala Lumpur Monorail project.

On the final day, he will visit the Multimedia Development Corporation in
Cyberjaya and the KL International Airport departing from the airport at
12.15pm.

This is Otri's first official visit to Malaysia and the visit is to
reciprocate Abdullah's trip to Syria in February 2007.
-- BERNAMA