S'pore, France set to boost ties with Comprehensive Strategic Partnership

PARIS Singapore and France will work towards stronger ties with a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) ahead of 2025, the 60th anniversary of relations between the two countries.

- Chin Soo Fang

The announcement came after a working dinner between Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and his host, French President Emmanuel Macron, on April 11.

The upgrade in relations to a CSP reflects the multifaceted cooperation between both countries and the joint desire to develop a forward-looking framework for cooperation in new sectors like the digital economy, said a Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement.

France is the second country that Singapore has a CSP with to deepen existing areas of cooperation and catalyse new ones. Singapore already has a CSP with Australia a broad-ranging agreement covering the five pillars of economics and trade, defence and foreign affairs, science and innovation, the digital economy, and people-to-people ties.