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🇦🇺🇸🇬 Hosted Australian High Commissioner to Singapore, Allaster Cox Spoke about our increasingly digitalised society, the progress we’ve made in our digital economies & collaboration in areas like AI, e-invoicing, consumer protection, personal data protection, arts & culture

Congratulations President Tharman Shanmugaratnam! Singapore is blessed to have in President Tharman one of the best minds, and most caring of hearts to serve as our republic’s 9th president. Majulah Singapura 🇸🇬

The promotion of trustworthy and responsible AI use and innovation were among issues discussed at the first US-SG Dialogue on Critical and Emerging Technology. 🇺🇸🇸🇬 📸 Official White House photo by Oliver Contreras.

Opportunities for public-private exchanges & partnerships were also discussed at the SG-US Business Roundtable on AI Safety and Innovation held in conjunction with the dialogue and chaired by US Deputy Secretary Don Graves and Minister Josephine Teo. Read more: go.gov.sg/sgusai

We launched 🇺🇸 🇸🇬 inaugural Critical and Emerging Technologies Dialogue with Jake Sullivan Archived and his team this week.

🇸🇬🇺🇸 We had a series of productive meetings with Cabinet officials of the Biden Administration in Washington DC yesterday, including with US Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Commerce Secretary Secretary Gina Raimondo. (📸: MCI Photos by Ngau Kai Yan)

🇸🇬🇨🇴Hosted Santiago de Cali Mayor Alejandro Eder and his team. Mayor Eder and I discussed how we can collaborate. I suggested that we work through existing platforms to make impact. Santiago de Cali will host #COP16 on biodiversity in Oct and I wished them all the best. 👍

🧱Building a strong, vibrant, innovative economy will help secure Singapore’s future in a more tumultuous world. MTI Singapore is at the forefront of: 🌱GROWING our economy, 🔓UNLOCKING potential in resources,🦋TRANSFORMING our sectors, 🤝CONNECTING more widely and deeply globally.

Visited Helsinki, where we had the honour of being hosted by Finnish President Alexander Stubb and his team. Looking forward to exploring new pathways to facilitate commercial linkages between our countries in areas such as the circular economy. 📷: @SingaporeMCI

🇪🇪🇸🇬 We met with President Alar Karis and Prime Minister Kaja Kallas yesterday in Estonia, as a member of President Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s delegation. Singapore enjoys a warm relationship with Estonia, and trade between our countries is growing. 📈 📷: @SingaporeMCI

Delighted to host New South Wales Industry and Trade Minister Anoulack Chanthivong today. 🤝🇦🇺 His visit underscores the strong bonds between SG and NSW and paves the way for us to work deeper on issues like energy, tech and innovation, food, fintech and supply chains. 💡⚡️🌱

An honour to meet Pope Leo XIV at our intern religious dialogue this morning.

Thank you Minister Márcio França and Bruno Quick for hosting us to a meeting on MSME development and collaboration. Minister França and I witnessed the signing of an MOU between Shopee & SEBRAE, which promotes digitalisation among Brazilian entrepreneurs and microenterprises.

🇸🇬🇮🇹⛴️ Welcomed Italy’s historic naval tall ship Amerigo Vespucci to Singapore, and met with Italy’s Deputy Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, Valentino Valentini

At the sidelines of Inclusive FinTech Forum in Kigali, Minister Dr. Valentine Uwamariya met with Singapore State Minister for Trade and industry Alvin Tan. They discussed ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation in areas of mutual interest linked to green growth and climate resilience.

🇷🇼🇸🇬A wide ranging discussion over lunch with National Bank of Rwanda (NBR) Governor Rwangombwa John and Deputy Governor Soraya M. Hakuziyaremye in Kigali at the sidelines of the Inclusive FinTech Forum. Sopnendu Mohanty

Met with Rwanda’s Minister of ICT and Innovation Paula Ingabire in Kigali. Minister Paula is familiar with 🇸🇬 and works with Minister Josephine Teo on digital and cybersecurity issues. We spoke about AI, digital adoption and how our digital and finance sectors can deepen cooperation🤝

Spoke about social cohesion in Singapore with Syahida Othman on CNA earlier this week. Oh and Lady Gaga too.

At the inaugural Commonwealth Business Summit in Windhoek, Namibia. Our Commonwealth members account for 15% of global trade, and the value of intra-Commonwealth trade exceeded US$880B in 2024. We can and will do more for global trade.

🇳🇦 Thank you Selma Ashipala-Musavyi, Namibia’s Trade Minister for hosting us in your beautiful Land of the Brave. And congratulations to Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey on your appointment as Secretary-General of The Commonwealth.