23 March 2019
KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 — Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok will lead a mission to Belgium in May to explain the country’s stance on the European Union’s decision to phase out the use of palm oil in biofuels in the trading bloc. She said this was among the more aggressive approaches taken by the government to state its position and eliminate any form of discrimination towards Malaysia.
“Therefore, I will go to Europe in May to meet with leaders who have an anti-palm oil sentiment and seek to explain further to them on the matter,” she told Bernama when met at the Pakatan Harapan government’s welfare briefing programme in Bukit Jalil today.
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