PETALING JAYA: Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin returned from a five-day working visit to scientific centres in Antarctica.
Tuanku Mizan flew in to the Royal Malaysian Air Force base in Subang near here yesterday and was welcomed by senior deputy secretary-general of the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Othman Mahmood and Keeper of the Rulers’ Seal Datuk Syed Danial Syed Ahmad.
The visit to the South Pole was in conjunction with Malaysia’s formal accession to the Antarctic Treaty 1959 on Oct 31 this year as a non-consultative member.
Tuanku Mizan was accompanied by Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili, Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) Antarctica Task Force chairman Tan Sri Salleh Mohd Nor, National Antarctica Research Centre director Prof Datuk Dr Azizan Abu Samah and Mohamad Mudanoran Mohamad Mushaari of Bernama.
Malaysia’s involvement with Antarctica started when Malaysia and Antigua and Barbuda highlighted the Antarctica issue at the United Nations General Assembly in 1983. – Bernama Source: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/11/25/nation/9976359&sec=nation
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