EAM S Jaishankar to Address ASEAN-India Think Tanks Roundtable in Singapore
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will address the 8th Roundtable of ASEAN – India Network of Think Tanks in Singapore today. The event is being jointly organised by the ASEAN-India Centre at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries and the ASEAN Studies Centre of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.
He will call on Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong. He will also meet Minister for Defence Dr. Ng Eng Hen and Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan. External Affairs Ministry said, Dr. Jaishankar’s visit builds upon the positive momentum of recent high-level exchanges and reaffirms the close and longstanding relations between Singapore and India.
The two countries have a close bilateral relationship. Singapore has played an important role in reconnecting India to the countries of Southeast Asia since the inception of the Look East Policy in the early 1990s. The Indian community has a significant presence in Singapore and constitutes about 9.2 per cent of the total population of the country.
The Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) comprises of Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.
