Shahidan denies PM to meet with Chinese premier soon

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Dr Shahidan Kassim has denied a claim by a news portal (Wall Street Journal) that Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak would meet the Chinese president in the near future to discuss the intrusion by a Chinese ship in the Borneo waters.

Shahidan said he had never issued any statement that the prime minister would bring up the issue on the intrusion directly to the Chinese president, Xi Jinping.

He also said that he was not a member of the National Security Council (MKN) as reported, but was merely looking after the affairs of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA).

"I deny that Najib will do so. I also emphasise that I am not a member of the MKN but the minister looking after enforcement in the national waters," he told journalists at his office in Parliament, today.

Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that Malaysia would protest the intrusion by a ship from the Chinese navy patrol team in the northern area of Borneo Island.