KUALA LUMPUR: The United States US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi accompanied by a congressional delegation arrived here, Tuesday (Aug 2) as part of the official visit to four Asian countries.
The special aircraft carrying Pelosi and her entourage touched down at the Royal Malaysian Air Force base in Subang near here at 10.33am, amid tight security.
It is Pelosi's maiden visit to Malaysia with Gregory Meeks, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also in the delegation list. Pelosi is number three in the line of US presidential succession and the only woman who has served as the Speaker of US house. While here, she is expected to pay a courtesy call on Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Azhar Azizan Harun at the Parliament building at noon before adjourning for a luncheon meet with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob at a leading hotel here.
However, Pelosi’s office did not mention whether the speaker would visit Taiwan amid intense speculation since late Monday that she might make a stop over in the island, a move that is set to draw China’s wrath as it views visits by US officials to Taiwan as sending an encouraging signal to the pro-independence camp in the island.
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