On Tuesday 23 January 2007 The Hon Dato' Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia, gave an address on "The West and the Muslim World: Defusing the Defining Tension of our Times".
This speech and Q&A were streamed live.
A transcript of his speech is available in the related documents section below.
Dato’ Seri Abdullah won his first election for the Parliamentary seat of the Kepala Batas constituency in 1978, (a seat he has retained since). In the same year, Dato’ Seri Abdullah was appointed to his first post in the administration of the Government of Malaysia, as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Federal Territory Ministry. He was then promoted to Deputy Minister in the same Ministry in 1980. Dato’ Seri Abdullah later held the post of Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department from 1981 to 1984; and Minister of Education from 1984 to 1986; Minister of Defence from 1986 to 1987; and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 15 March 1991 to 1999. In January 1999, Dato’ Seri Abdullah was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs. Dato’ Seri Abdullah is now the Minister of Finance as well as the Minister of Internal Security.
Dato’ Seri Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi became the 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia on 31 October 2003.
