KUALA LUMPUR, 26th February, 2017 (WAM) -- Malaysia today welcomed the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, at the start of a rare, month-long Asian tour, where the monarch will build ties and seek to draw more investments to the gulf nation.
The visit is the first by a Saudi king to Malaysia in more than a decade, as the Arab nation courts Asian investors for the sale of a 5 percent stake in state firm Aramco in 2018, expected to be the world's biggest IPO, reported Reuters.
The Saudi King was received by Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Razak, and was greeted at parliament with a 21-gun salute.
King Salman also plans to visit Indonesia, Brunei, Japan, China, the Maldives and Jordan to meet with the leaders of those countries to discuss bilateral relations and regional and international issues of common concern.