Joint declaration by the Prime Ministers of Australia and Singapore on the Complete Strategic Partnership 2.0

We worth our enduring defence and safety partnership which has been strengthened with the 2020 Treaty on Military Training and Training Area Development. Building on the profitable joint growth of the expanded Shoalwater Bay Training Area (SWBTA), we are going to improve our respective militaries’ reciprocal entry to defence services in Australia and Singapore. This will embody expanded entry for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) in Singapore in assist of its regional presence and elevated entry for the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) to coaching areas in Australia, together with SWBTA.

We will additional strengthen defence cooperation by:

5.1 Deepening and growing the complexity of defence science and know-how collaboration;

5.2 Expanding skilled defence exchanges and collaboration between each militaries; and

5.3 Enhancing mutual collaboration and strengthening linkages between our defence provide chains and logistics ecosystems.

We worth our ongoing safety cooperation and policing cooperation on shared areas of curiosity, together with countering terrorism and violent extremism, border and civil maritime safety, nationwide resilience, constructing resilience in opposition to international interference, catastrophe and emergency administration, and combatting transnational, critical and organised crime. We will additional strengthen and broaden our nationwide safety cooperation and policing cooperation by:

7.1 Continuing to construct and increase cooperation below the newly established Australia-Singapore Security Dialogue;

7.2 Implementing the MoU on Cooperation in Security Matters between the Department of Home Affairs of Australia and the Ministry of Home Affairs of Singapore;

7.3 Strengthening collaboration on immigration and border administration via the Border of the Future Partnership;

7.4 Implementing the renewed MoU on combating transnational crime and creating police cooperation between the Singapore Police Force and the Australian Federal Police, and the MoU on operational science and know-how between the Home Team Science and Technology Agency and the Australian Federal Police; and

7.5 Implementing the MoU between the National Emergency Management Agency of Australia and the Singapore Civil Defence Force for cooperation on emergency administration and catastrophe danger discount.

We affirm the significance of working carefully with companions in ASEAN to advertise a secure, peaceable and affluent area.

9.1 The Foreign Ministers have signed an MoU on the Singapore-Australia Third Country Training Programme to collectively lengthen technical help to Southeast Asian nations. We may even deepen growth coverage discussions between the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, with a view to regularise discussions on the senior officers’ stage.

9.2 We will work collectively on battle prevention within the area, together with via common expert-to-expert exchanges, to construct our collective capability to take care of the circumstances for peace and stability.

9.3 In this twenty fifth anniversary 12 months of UNSC decision 1325, Australia and Singapore underline our shared dedication to the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, together with via implementation of the ASEAN Regional Plan of Action on WPS.