PM Modi To Visit Singapore On September 4-5 To Bolster Strategic Ties

New Delhi:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will go to Singapore within the first week of September, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) introduced on Friday. The go to might be essential in additional strengthening bilateral ties between the 2 nations.

“PM Modi will go to Singapore on September 4 and September 5, 2024, on the invitation of the PM, his excellency Lawrence Wong,” Ministry of Exterior Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated.

“The leaders will evaluation the progress of India–Singapore Strategic Partnership and alternate views on regional and world problems with mutual curiosity. Through the go to, Prime Minister will name on President of Singapore H.E. Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam and work together with Singaporean management. Prime Minister may also meet with enterprise leaders from Singapore,” the Ministry of Exterior Affairs stated in a press launch.

PM Modi’s Singapore go to was beforehand talked about by Singaporean International Minister Vivian Balakrishnan after senior ministers of India and Singapore concluded a high-level assembly to additional their strategic ties.

A four-member Indian delegation, together with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, and Railways and Data Know-how Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, lately attended the second India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable (ISMR) in Singapore.

“A rustic with greater than 1.4 billion folks is now embarking on a serious improve of its aviation sector. This can be a as soon as in a two, three-decade alternative, and it is good that we’re, in a way, within the entrance seat and have an opportunity (to collaborate),” stated Singaporean International Minister Vivian Balakrishnan after the assembly.

Through the multi-ministerial assembly, the 2 nations lined how one can strengthen bilateral cooperation in areas comparable to digital know-how, talent improvement, sustainability, healthcare, connectivity, and manufacturing.

“Glad that progress has been made on a number of fronts since our final assembly. And new concepts for cooperation are being pursued, together with in superior manufacturing and connectivity. These initiatives will pave the best way for nearer strategic cooperation and partnership between India and Singapore,” stated Singapore PM Lawrence Wong after assembly the Indian ministers on Monday.

In 2023-24, bilateral commerce between India and Singapore was $35.61 billion, making Singapore India’s sixth largest world commerce associate. 

PM Modi might be visiting Singapore after a go to to Brunei on September 3-4. PM Modi’s go to to Brunei would be the “first-ever bilateral go to by an Indian PM to Brunei and can coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the institution of diplomatic ties between India and Brunei,” says Ministry of Exterior Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal.

“These visits will additional strengthen India’s cooperation with Brunei and Singapore each bilaterally and inside the regional and multilateral frameworks,” stated the Ministry of Exterior Affairs.