Marking 60 years of diplomatic ties, Prime Ministers Modi and Wong unveiled an ambitious plan to deepen cooperation in eight key areas.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong of Singapore held wide-ranging talks in New Delhi on September 4, 2025, during the Singaporean leader’s official visit to India. The two leaders adopted a forward-looking Roadmap for the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP), which outlines the vision for future bilateral cooperation.
Prime Minister Wong, who visited India from September 2 to 4 at the invitation of Prime Minister Modi, also called on President Droupadi Murmu, paid tributes at Raj Ghat, attended a banquet lunch hosted by Prime Minister Modi, and met External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar. The visit comes as India and Singapore celebrate the 60th anniversary of their diplomatic relations.
The two leaders expressed satisfaction with the strong progress in ties, highlighted by recent high-level engagements such as Prime Minister Modi’s official visit to Singapore in September 2024, the state visit of President Tharman Shanmugaratnam of Singapore to India in January 2025, and the India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable in August 2025.
Eight Pillars of Cooperation
The Roadmap for the CSP sets the direction for deeper bilateral engagement across eight areas:
- Economic Cooperation: Strengthening trade and investment, advancing semiconductor collaboration, boosting capital market connectivity, supporting joint ventures in industrial parks, and enhancing cooperation in space technologies and legal frameworks.
- Skills Development: Establishing a National Centre of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing in Chennai, strengthening technical education and training, and deepening cooperation in reskilling and workforce development.
- Digitalisation: Expanding digital finance and fintech linkages, advancing cyber security cooperation, fostering AI and emerging technologies, and strengthening UPI-PayNow connectivity.
- Sustainability: Enhancing cooperation in green hydrogen, civil nuclear energy, urban water management, food security, and multilateral green initiatives.
- Connectivity: Developing Green and Digital Shipping Corridors, expanding civil aviation ties, enhancing air services, and promoting sustainable aviation fuel.
- Healthcare and Medicine: Collaborating in digital health, maternal and child health, nursing training, industrial research, and combating communicable and non-communicable diseases.
- People-to-People and Cultural Exchanges: Expanding student and cultural exchanges, strengthening diaspora links, and promoting parliamentary, academic, and think-tank engagement.
- Defence and Security: Continuing joint military exercises, advancing defence technology cooperation, strengthening maritime security, enhancing counter-terrorism efforts, and deepening regional security collaboration.
The leaders also agreed to institutionalize the India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable as the foremost mechanism for annual monitoring of progress under the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
Prime Ministers Modi and Wong reaffirmed their commitment to a future-oriented partnership, rooted in trust and mutual respect, that will contribute to regional peace, prosperity, and global stability.
Source: PMO
