India, Singapore compliment each other....: MEA
MEA), Jaideep Mazumdar, said on Thursday that the two nations complement each other and need each other to develop further.
While addressing a special briefing on PM Modi's visit to Singapore, Mazumdar said that India and Singapore have «strong relations» and have frequent exchanges between military establishments, navies and air forces.
Mazumdar said, «We have a very multidimensional relationship. We have very strong relations in the defence side as well, where we do joint exercises together. We have very frequent exchanges between our military establishments, between our navies, our air forces, our leaderships of all three services interact very frequently. We have ship visits, we exchange domain awareness information.»
«We would like to also cooperate further in maritime domain awareness. So, this is one area where we cooperate very closely and the other of course is in all the areas of economy, trade and investment. Singapore is our biggest foreign investor since 2020. Since 2000, Singapore has invested nearly 100 and 60 billion dollars in India. Last year, Singapore was the biggest foreign investor in India. We are going into the next stage of sustainable technologies, renewable energy, advanced manufacturing such as semiconductors and also in health and in skilling. So these are all areas where we have great complementarities. We complement each other and we need each other in order to develop further.»
Stressing that Indian diaspora plays a bridge between India and Singapore, he said, «I think the
