Keynote Address by the Prime Minister of Malaysia Dato' Sri Najib Tun Razak at the 'Global Movement of Moderates Conference'

(Kuala Lumpur, 17 January 2012)

Abstract

I am delighted to join all of you today at the very first conference of the Global Movement of the Moderates - I know many of you have travelled thousands of miles to be here, and I want to thank you for your dedication and commitment to our common cause. We have a saying in Malaysia, tak kenal maka tak cinta, which means “we can’t love what we don’t know” - and it is my sincere hope that over the next few days we will come to both know and love each other better, and to put that mutual empathy and understanding into the service of facing down extremism in all its forms.