Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan will visit the Palestinian territories, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Saudi Arabia from March 18 to March 24, as he continues his working visit to the Middle East.
Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan will visit the Palestinian territories, Israel , the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Saudi Arabia from March 18 to March 24, as he continues his working visit to the Middle East . For this leg of the trip, he will be accompanied by Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials and five MPs – Mr Alex Yam, Ms Nadia Ahmad Samdin, Ms Rachel Ong and Mr Zhulkarnain Abdul Rahim from the ruling People’s Action Party, and Workers’ Party MP Gerald Giam.
The five MPs were in Amman on March 17, and they joined Singaporean students in Jordan’s capital for iftar – the meal which breaks the daytime fast for Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan They also witnessed the presentation of a $6.1 million cheque to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the main UN aid agency in Gaza. The funds were part of a record $
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