Exterior Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar held a sequence of in depth high-level interactions throughout his go to to Singapore, underscoring the significance India attaches to its ties with the nation, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) highlighted in an official assertion on Sunday.

EAM Jaishankar visited Singapore on July 13. Through the go to, he known as on the President of Singapore, Tharman Shanmugaratnam and held conferences with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Commerce and Trade Gan Kim Yong and Minister for International Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan.

The MEA famous in its assertion that the leaders reviewed progress of the outcomes of Prime Minister’s go to and the 2nd spherical of India Singapore Ministerial Roundtable (ISMR), which included areas of investments, industrial parks, semiconductors, infrastructure, ability growth and connectivity. In addition they exchanged views on ASEAN, Indo-Pacific and world developments.

EAM Jaishankar additionally met Teo Chee Hean, former Senior Minister & Coordinating Minister for Nationwide Safety and Chairman-designate of Temasek Holdings. Their dialogue targeted on transformation underway in India and alternatives for Temasek to develop its investments in India.

MEA underlined in its assertion that the go to is a part of continued high-level exchanges between two international locations and displays the significance India attaches to its relations with Singapore.

Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will arrive in Beijing on Sunday night, his first journey to China in 5 years.

The go to comes at a time when each international locations are attempting to ease tensions and enhance ties that plummeted following the lethal Galwan Valley clashes in 2020.Jaishankar, who’s on a two-nation tour — Singapore and China is scheduled to reach in Beijing this night after wrapping up the Singapore leg of his go to.

The Exterior Affairs Minister is predicted to fulfill his Chinese language counterpart, Wang Yi, for a bilateral assembly on Monday.

Jaishankar and Wang final met in February on the sidelines of a G20 assembly in Johannesburg, the place each side echoed requires mutual belief and assist.

Jaishankar will even attend a gathering of overseas ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) International Ministers’ in Tianjin on July 15.

The Ministry of Exterior Affairs confirmed that “EAM will go to the Folks’s Republic of China to take part within the SCO Council of International Ministers’ Assembly (CFM) being held in Tianjin. EAM will even maintain bilateral conferences on the sidelines of the CFM.”

That is Jaishankar’s first go to to China since relations soured following the lethal navy conflict in Galwan in 2020.Jaishankar’s go to follows visits by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Nationwide Safety Advisor Ajit Doval, who had travelled to China in June for the SCO conferences.

Wang Yi can be anticipated to go to India subsequent month to fulfill NSA Ajit Doval — a part of a deliberate spherical of dialogue underneath the Particular Representatives (SR) mechanism geared toward resolving the decades-old boundary dispute.