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Minister for Asia visits Singapore for talks on business, investment and the illegal wildlife trade

Mark Field, Minister for Asia and the Pacific at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, visits Singapore to further joint UK-Singapore work.

From:
Foreign & Commonwealth Office and The Rt Hon Mark Field
Published
27 August 2017
This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Mark Field, minister for Asia and the Pacific at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, is in Singapore to further joint work on issues including security, trade and combating the illegal wildlife trade.

During the 2-day visit he will meet Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean to discuss the UK-Singapore relationship.

Mr Field will also attend the opening of the Lee Kong Chian Medical School, meet representatives from UK financial and professional services to discuss opportunities and challenges in South East Asia, and visit Lattice80, Asia鈥檚 largest financial technology (FinTech) hub, to meet Singapore鈥檚 top FinTech firms.

He will also visit Interpol鈥檚 Global Complex for Innovation to learn about their work on tackling the illegal wildlife trade through crime networks.

The UK is a key player in the global effort to stamp out the illegal wildlife trade and will host the Illegal Wildlife Trade conference in London in October 2018. Singapore has been committed to helping this work.

Mark Field, minister for Asia and Pacific at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, said:

Singapore and the UK have deep historic links, and remain major partners on a wide range of issues. In 2015 alone the total UK trade with Singapore was worth nearly 拢11 billion, the most of all the countries in the South East Asia region. We share values and collaborate on education, research, science and innovation.

I look forward to discussing the illegal wildlife trade during my visit. The UK is committed to tackling this crucial issue, and we will continue to work with our international partners, non-governmental organisations and the private sector to bring it to an end.

The minister鈥檚 visit to Singapore is the final stage of a tour to Asia which has also included China, Hong Kong and South Korea.

Background

  • Mark Field MP was appointed Minister for Asia and the Pacific at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in June 2017. This is his first official visit to Singapore
  • Singapore is the world鈥檚 third largest global financial centre and conducted 拢10.9 billion of trade with the UK in 2015

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Published 27 August 2017

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