PKR strategy director Sim Tze Tzin said Najib’s meeting with Trump should strictly be on bilateral relations and he should not raise the US Department of Justice’s (DoJ) investigations on the 1MDB scandal.
“There is speculation whether the prime minister will raise the investigations of DoJ related to his family, his associates and ‘Malaysian Offical 1’ in his White House meeting.
“The country should come first, over personal matters,” said Sim to reporters at the PKR headquarters today.
Sim also reminded Najib that the security threats facing Malaysia originate from regional terrorist groups with no access to sophisticated weapons, and hence he should be wary of American attempts to push sales of such weapons.
“Trump has pushed weapon sales to Saudi Arabia (US$110 billion) and Taiwan (US$1.42 billion) before.
“Yesterday, he (Trump) announced he would allow Japan and South Korea to buy more weapons,” he said.
Sim’s third piece of advice to Najib was not to sell national strategic assets to foreign countries, claiming that he had done this in the past to raise funds to pay off 1MDB’s debts.
“He has sold independent power plants, vast strategic lands, and important seaports to foreign countries.
“We urge the prime minister not to repeat that in his visit to the US,” said the Bayan Baru MP.
Lastly, Sim said Najib should work hard during his US visit to bring in more US direct investments and not 100 Tesla cars, which cost RM400,000 per unit.
“That is not what Malaysians need. We need investments and jobs, not expensive cars,” he said.
He said foreign direct investment into Malaysia fell to RM8.3 billion in the second quarter of 2017 from RM17 billion in the previous period and compared to RM10.6 billion in the same quarter of 2016.