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<p>The British government has long-standing diplomatic relations with Malaysia.</p><p>We
have had a high number of inward and outward ministerial visits over the past year,
including a visit by the Foreign Secretary in January. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir
Mohamad, Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah and the Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin
Abdullah have visited the UK during that period.</p><p>The UK works closely with Malaysia
in a number of areas including trade and defence. We have strengthened our defence
relationship with the launch of the Ministerial level Defence Strategic Dialogue in
2018. We have a growing collaboration on climate change and our education partnership
continues to grow with five British university campuses in Malaysia and 19,000 Malaysian
students in the UK. The UK is also supporting the Malaysian government's institutional
reform agenda.</p>
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