SINGAPORE: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is on an official visit to
Singapore from November 16 to 18, was on Saturday hosted to breakfast by Prime
Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
PM Lee affirmed the warm
bilateral relations and welcomed the continued commitment by the Obama
Administration to engage the region.
He expressed appreciation for Mrs
Clinton's important role in ensuring the sustained and broad-based US
engagement of the region, including in the economic sphere.
Both sides also exchanged views
on international and regional developments, including initiatives for closer
US-ASEAN cooperation and the agenda of the upcoming East Asia Summit.
Deputy Prime Minister and
Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs Teo
Chee Hean and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Tharman
Shanmugaratnam were among those also at the breakfast.
Others at the breakfast were
Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Second Minister for the Environment
and Water Resources and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs Grace Fu, and
Minister of State for the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Transport,
Josephine Teo.
-CNA/ac
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