SINGAPORE — Singapore and China will work towards establishing a secure defence telephone link under a memorandum of understanding (MOU) the two countries inked on Thursday (June 1).
Under the MOU, the defence establishments in both countries will work towards setting up the secure line for high-level communications between their respective defence leaders, Singapore's Ministry of Defence said in a media release.
The MOU signing was witnessed by Singapore's Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen and China's Defence Minister Li Shangfu, who is visiting Singapore for the first time. Both the DMD and the MOU are initiatives under the enhanced Agreement on Defence Exchanges and Security Cooperation signed in 2019.Gen Li will also speak at a plenary session of the Shangri-La Dialogue, titled China’s new security initiatives, on Sunday. The dialogue is run by the International Institute for Strategic Studies .
The keynote address for this year’s conference will be delivered by Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the dialogue’s opening dinner on Friday.
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