Transcript of Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan’s Interview with Reuters Global Managing Editor for World News Mark Bendeich, 23 March 2026

Mark Bendeich (Reuters): We are going to start off with, obviously, the Iran war. I wanted to ask you, for those investors and businesses who are deciding now to leave Dubai, what would you say to them about Singapore, at the moment, as a destination for investment and capital?

Transcript of Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan’s Opening Remarks at Fireside Chat at the Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. on 7 June 2025

Minister: I come from a tiny city state called Singapore in the heart of Southeast Asia, 700 square kilometers in size. We have no natural resources. We are wedged between the Straits of Malacca and the Sunda Strait. We are at the tip of the Malay Peninsula. Our survival has depended on an open and rules-based international order. So we have always believed that peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific has been the foundation of our prosperity and our security. And I think the region is at an inflection point, and it is not clear which way things will go.

Transcript of Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan’s Remarks at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs Year Opener “Outlook 2025 – Singapore at 60 and The Road Ahead”, 24 January 2025

Associate Professor Simon Tay, Patricia Quek, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

1 It is a pleasure to be here. 2025 is a significant year. For Singapore, [it is] SG60. It is also 80 years since the end of the Second World War. So I think this is an opportune time for us to ask three sets of fundamental questions.