Visit to Australia by Singapore's Foreign Minister George Yeo
Media release
16 June 2010
Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr George Yeo, is visiting Australia from Tuesday 15 June to Saturday 19 June as a Guest of the Australian Government.
This is Mr Yeo's first visit to Australia since APEC in Sydney in September 2007, and his first bilateral visit since 2005.
I met Mr Yeo in Canberra today, Wednesday 16 June. We discussed a range of matters of importance to the Australia-Singapore relationship and to our cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.
Mr Yeo also met the Prime Minister.
On Friday 18 and Saturday 19 June Mr Yeo will join me in Perth, where we will visit Curtin University, which has established a campus in Singapore, and conduct a wreath laying ceremony at the State War Memorial in Kings Park.
In July 2009 in Singapore, Mr Yeo and I co-chaired the Singapore Australia Joint Ministerial Committee meeting (SAJMC), which brings together Foreign, Defence and Trade Ministers from both countries in a dialogue to discuss foreign, strategic, defence, trade and economic issues of mutual interest.
Australia looks forward to holding the next meeting of the SAJMC next year.
Singapore and Australia are natural partners in our region, with a bilateral relationship founded on long-standing, education, defence, strategic, tourism and trade links. Singapore is Australia's sixth largest two-way trading partner and its largest in ASEAN, with total two-way trade valued at almost $23 billion in 2009.
Singapore and Australia work closely together on a range of regional and global economic, strategic and security issues, including in the East Asia Summit, APEC and ASEAN Regional Forum, as well as through the United Nations.
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