Singapore Foreign Minister in town today

Monday, 23 February 2015 00:18 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}}

Singapore’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Law K. Shanmugam will be visiting Sri Lanka and India from 23 February to 26 February, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday.

The Singapore Foreign Ministry said in a statement that while in Sri Lanka, Minister Shanmugam will visit Colombo where he will call on President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Minister Shanmugam will also meet his counterpart, Minister of External Affairs, Mangala Samaraweera, and the Governor of the Central Bank, Arjuna Mahendran. The visit aims to reaffirm the strong and friendly relations between Singapore and Sri Lanka. In India, Minister Shanmugam will visit Jaipur and meet Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje. Minister Shanmugam will also visit Hyderabad and meet Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu. In his meetings with Chief Minister Raje and Chief Minister Naidu, Minister Shanmugam will discuss how Singapore can strengthen its bilateral cooperation with Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh respectively. For the visit to Rajasthan, apart from senior officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister Shanmugam will be accompanied by representatives from the Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (SCE), Temasek Foundation, ITE Education Services (ITEES) and a business delegation led by International Enterprise Singapore (IES).