Visiting India at PM Manmohan Singh’s invitation. My last visit was seven years ago, when PM Singh and I signed the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA). It was a major step forward in our economic cooperation, but since then the world has moved on. We need to upgrade our cooperation, both bilaterally and within ASEAN.
We are doing so in many areas – trade and investments, arts and culture, security and defence, and education. ITE will be cooperating with the Delhi state government in vocational education, to build a World Class Skills Centre. And tomorrow our Speaker and theirs will be launching a new India-Singapore Parliamentary Friendship Group. – LHL