DAR ES SALAAM (Tanzania), June 29 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak arrived here last night to attend the Global Smart Partnership Dialogue.

The prime minister’s aircraft landed at the Julius Nyerere International Airport here at 9.20pm local time yesterday (2.20am Malaysian time Saturday).

He was accompanied by his wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Idris Jala, and Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Dr Ali Hamsa.

They were greeted on arrival by Tanzanian Minister for Communication, Science and Technology Prof Makame M. Mbarawa at the airport named after Tanzania’s founding father.

Najib will be joining 14 others heads of state and governments from African countries for the two-day dialogue starting tomorrow at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre in Dar Es Salaam, the country’s commercial capital.

Najib is scheduled to leave tomorrow night for London for a working visit there. — Bernama