SINGAPORE: New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon will make an official visit to Singapore from Sunday ( Apr 14 ) to Tuesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MFA ) said in a media statement.
Singapore is the first stop of Mr Luxon’s Southeast Asia visit, which will also contain Thailand and the Philippines.
” Prime Minister Luxon’s visit confirms the superb and long-standing ties between Singapore and New Zealand, which are supported by the Enhanced Partnership established in 2019,” said MFA.
During the visit of then-prime secretary Jacinda Ardern, the two nations fully improved diplomatic relations to an Enhanced Partnership in May 2019. It covers the five pillars of trade and economics, surveillance and defence, knowledge, technology and innovation, people- to- people links, and culture change and the alternative market.
New Zealand’s Minister for Climate Change, Minister for Profits, Simon Watts, and other top officials will accompany Mr. Luxon on his journey.
He will be given a formal pleasant at the Istana on Monday, and a fresh flower hybrid did bear his name.
According to MFA, he may meet with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and President Tharman Shanmugaratnam.
He’ll even join Lawrence Wong, the deputy prime minister.
After his National Party won enough seats in the country’s basic vote the fortnight before to form a coalition, Mr. Luxon took office in November.
In January of this year, Mr. Lee and his New Zealand rival had telephone conversations, and they also met on the day of the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit in Melbourne in March.