India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was in Singapore from August 15-17. Swaraj’s visit was a reciprocal gesture as Singapore had sent its Foreign Minister K. Shanmugan to New Delhi within a month of the new administration being sworn in.
The visit flagged off year-long celebrations in Singapore to commemorate fifty years of India-Singapore diplomatic relations. During the course of the year-long celebrations (2014-2015) the two nations will continue to hold high-level visits.
The External Affairs Minister also met the Prime Minister of Singapore – Lee Hsien Loong as well as a cross-section of the Singapore leadership.
Singapore is currently India’s largest trading partner in ASEAN. It is the source of the highest FDI to India, approximately $5.9 billion in 2014. It is also the destination of the highest Indian investments abroad during the last decade.