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FOREIGN STATE VISITS Photos by Ministry of Culture & Information, Singapore
2017 Some highlights of visits this year by Prime Minister of Singapore
Lee Hsien Loong. For the full list of official visits by Singapore
ministers overseas, visit www.indiplomacy.com
Official Visit to the People’s Republic of China Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, the
19 to 21 September 2017 Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan of Negara Brunei Darussalam. Prime Min-
ister Lee conveyed Singapore’s congratulations to His Majesty on the
Prime Minister Lee Hsien occasion. Both leaders also reaffirmed the excellent state of bilateral
Loong visited Beijing and Xia- relations between the two countries.
men, Fujian Province at the
invitation of the Premier of the Official Working Visit to Washington D.C.
State Council of the People’s 21 to 26 October 2017
Republic of China, Li Keqiang.
In Beijing, the Prime Minister
met President Xi Jinping, Pre-
mier Li Keqiang who hosted a
Welcome Ceremony and a Din-
ner Banquet, and Chairman of
the National People’s Congress
Zhang Dejiang.
In Xiamen, Prime Minister Lee met and was hosted to lunch by the
Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Fujian Provincial
Committee You Quan. PM Lee also visited ST Aerospace Technolo-
gies (Xiamen) Company and the Fujian (Xiamen)-Singapore Friend-
ship Polyclinic - the first polyclinic jointly established by Singapore and
China in 2011. He also attended a commemorative event to mark the
completion of the refurbishment of the façade of the OCBC Building.
Working Visit to Negara Brunei Darussalam for the The Official Working Visit was at the invitation of President Donald
Golden Jubilee Celebration of His Majesty Sultan Haji Trump and PM Lee’s visit built on Singapore’s wide-ranging and robust
Hassanal Bolkiah partnership with the United States over the past 51 years. During the
5 to 7 October 2017 visit, PM Lee met President Trump at the Oval Office and was hosted by
the President to a bilateral working lunch together with Cabinet Secre-
taries and key White House officials.
The Singapore Prime Minister also had separate meetings with Secretary
of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Na-
tional Security Advisor H R McMaster, and National Economic Council
Director Gary Cohn. He met several key Congressional leaders while he
was there as well as Singaporeans at a reception at the Singapore Embassy
in Washington, D.C. He spoke at the Economic Club of Washington D.C.
and attended a moderated dialogue at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was in Bandar Seri Begawan, Negara
Brunei Darussalam, to attend the Golden Jubilee celebration of His
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