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Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese held the ten^th Singapore-Australia Annual Leaders’ Meeting in Canberra at this time.

The Prime Ministers reaffirmed the superb state of bilateral relations and commemorated two important milestones within the bilateral relationship in 2025, specifically 60 years of diplomatic ties between Singapore and Australia and the ten^th anniversary of the Singapore-Australia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP). They welcomed the superb bilateral cooperation because the launch of the CSP in 2015, a broad-ranging settlement protecting: (a) economics and commerce; (b) defence and international affairs; (c) science and innovation; (d) people-to-people; (e) digital economic system; and (f) inexperienced economic system. Across the six pillars of the CSP, Singapore and Australia have delivered over 110 initiatives. Recognising that the CSP has cemented the bilateral relationship and delivered important dividends for each international locations, the Prime Ministers agreed to take the following step and improve the CSP.

  At the Joint Press Conference that adopted, the 2 leaders introduced the launch of the following section of the Singapore-Australia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (“CSP 2.0”), the place either side will embark on extra formidable, pathfinding bilateral initiatives to strengthen resilience, seize new alternatives and contribute to stability and development within the area and past. The Prime Ministers recommended the Ministers and officers of either side for his or her work in placing collectively an formidable CSP 2.0 consisting of 80 initiatives, together with 20 new MOUs and Agreements in addition to 11 new dialogues throughout 5 pillars of bilateral cooperation in: (a) Contributing to Peace and Stability, at Home and in Our Region; (b) Connecting Our Economies; (c) Transitioning to Net-Zero; (d) Forging New Frontiers; and (e) Deepening Friendships and Capabilities. The Joint Declaration of the CSP 2.0 is at Annex.

The leaders additionally exchanged views on regional and worldwide developments, together with the necessity to promote financial integration, strengthen multilateralism and ASEAN-Australia relations, and uphold the rules-based worldwide order. Prime Minister Wong welcomed Prime Minister Albanese’s dedication to deepen Australia’s engagement of Southeast Asia, together with by initiatives reminiscent of Australia’s Southeast Asia Economic Strategy to 2040 and Australia’s complete contribution of A$175 million to Singapore’s Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership.

Prime Minister Wong will name on Governor-General of Australia Sam Mostyn and meet with Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley later this afternoon. He can even take part in a wreath-laying ceremony on the Australian War Memorial and attend a reception for Overseas Singaporeans hosted by the Singapore High Commission in Canberra. Prime Minister Wong will depart for Auckland, New Zealand tomorrow.

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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

SINGAPORE

8 OCTOBER 2025

Annex

JOINT DECLARATION

BY THE PRIME MINISTERS OF AUSTRALIA AND SINGAPORE

ON THE

COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP 2.0

1.    On the event of the ten^th anniversary of our Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) and the 60^th anniversary of diplomatic relations, we the Prime Ministers of Australia and Singapore announce at this time the launch of our enhanced bilateral CSP 2.0. This CSP 2.0 will higher put together our economies and societies for challenges and alternatives now and sooner or later, and extends our cooperation additional to have interaction successfully with our regional companions. It consists of strengthened and new initiatives to be applied over the following ten years underneath 5 frequent targets.

2.    Since the launch of the CSP in 2015, now we have deepened financial engagement and cooperation and solid new pathways in frontier areas such because the digital and inexperienced economies. Our longstanding defence and safety cooperation contributes to a secure and peaceable area. The sturdy ties between our peoples underpin the bilateral relationship and have continued to strengthen by training, analysis, science, tradition and the humanities and enterprise ties.

3.    Australia and Singapore have a good time our longstanding friendship primarily based on deep strategic belief, respect and shared international outlooks. We recognise our frequent historical past and future focus as Indo-Pacific nations.

Contributing to Peace and Stability, At Home and In Our Region

4.    Australia and Singapore share an important curiosity within the peace, stability, financial development and improvement of the nations of Southeast Asia and the broader Indo-Pacific area. Both our international locations recognise and help the central position of ASEAN and the ASEAN-led regional structure. We underscore the significance of an open, inclusive, resilient and rules-based area, which promotes free commerce and open markets, and the place variations are resolved peacefully in accordance with worldwide regulation.

5.    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 improvement of the expanded Shoalwater Bay Training Area (SWBTA), we’ll 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 help 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 rising the complexity of defence science and expertise 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.

6.    In accordance with these traces of effort, our Defence Ministers have signed an MoU regarding Enhanced Defence Cooperation. The signing of the MoU demonstrates our shared dedication to strengthen our shut and longstanding defence partnership.

7.    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, severe and organised crime. We will additional strengthen and broaden our nationwide safety cooperation and policing cooperation by:

7.1     Continuing to construct and develop cooperation underneath 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 by 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 expertise 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 threat discount.

8.    We are dedicated to supporting the rules-based multilateral system to ship on its core features and mandates, and to uphold the foundations, norms and establishments that underpin prosperity and safety in our area.

9.    We affirm the significance of working intently 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 international locations. We can even deepen improvement 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’ degree.

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

9.3     In this 25^th anniversary yr of UNSC decision 1325, Australia and Singapore underline our shared dedication to the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, together with by implementation of the ASEAN Regional Plan of Action on WPS.

Connecting Our Economies

10. We affirm our enduring partnership and shared dedication to deepening financial integration within the Indo-Pacific and past, particularly within the face of rising geoeconomic uncertainty. We underscore the significance of upholding the rules-based buying and selling system and a resilient, inclusive and open multilateral order. We will proceed to construct on the upgraded Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement, along with the varied multilateral platforms Singapore and Australia are get together to, such because the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area, Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, and Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity. Through enhanced collaboration in sectors of shared significance, we’ll goal to unlock new alternatives for companies, whereas reinforcing a rules-based, open and inclusive regional financial order.

11. Our Ministers have signed an MoU on Economic Resilience to develop collaboration and strengthen financial resilience. We will work in the direction of negotiating an Arrangement on commerce in important provides by finish 2026, and can discover choices for a future legally binding dedication involving bilateral preparations reminiscent of session and early notification in case of potential disruptions. We will set up the Australia-Singapore Economic Resilience Dialogue.

12. We have a protracted and trusted meals partnership and established a Food Pact in 2023 to extend cooperation in meals commerce, security, and analysis innovation. We sit up for strengthening meals provide resilience, together with by facilitating agri-food funding alternatives between our two international locations and the continuing joint improvement of the Simplified Transshipment Model for pink meat to encourage commerce and distribution of Australian meals merchandise by Singapore to the broader area.

13. We will develop cooperation in commerce and funding to help Australia and Singapore’s business pursuits in one another’s economies. We will proceed to work collectively on wider and mutually useful cooperation by leveraging Singapore’s sturdy connectivity and ties with Southeast Asia and Asia, in addition to by “Invested: Australia’s Southeast Asia Economic Strategy to 2040” which is deepening two-way commerce and funding between Australia and Southeast Asia. We acknowledged the position of Australia’s Investment Deal Team in Singapore and the Southeast Asia Investment Financing Facility (SEAIFF), which have facilitated Australia’s AUD175 million funding within the Singapore Government’s Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership (FAST-P). Similarly, the Future Made in Australia (FMA) agenda will create alternatives to additional cooperation with the area in precedence sectors.

14. Our nearer financial relationship has facilitated the institution of a bilateral Digital Economy Agreement, a first-of-its-kind Agreement globally. We will proceed to advertise cross-border information flows and to safe a everlasting multilateral moratorium on customs duties on digital transmissions. We will evaluate the Singapore-Australia Air Services Agreement that enhances connectivity and enterprise exchanges between the 2 international locations.

15. We will unlock new deltas of partnerships between EnterpriseSG and Australia by leveraging the distinctive strengths of Australian states and territories.

16. We will work intently to protect and strengthen the rules-based multilateral buying and selling system, with the World Trade Organization (WTO) at its core, to offer significant impetus to reply to present commerce challenges, reap the benefits of obtainable alternatives, and make sure the WTO’s correct functioning. This consists of continued partnership as co-convenors of the WTO Joint Statement Initiative on E-Commerce, as we proceed in the direction of incorporating the E-Commerce Agreement within the WTO authorized framework.

Transitioning to Net-Zero

17. We will deepen cooperation to help formidable motion on local weather change and obtain our respective commitments underneath the Paris Agreement. Building on our sturdy complementarities, we’ll work intently to reap the benefits of the big financial and industrial alternatives because the area strikes to net-zero, and to strengthen regional financial, local weather and power resilience.

18. Recalling each international locations’ shared dedication to rising renewable power capability and the significance of cooperation in commerce and funding to speed up the area’s clear power transition, we’ll maintain a Ministerial Dialogue on Energy. Recognising the position of LNG within the power transition and Australia’s position as a dependable power supplier, we’ll proceed cooperation to help the secure provide of pure gasoline because the area transitions to net-zero.

19. We will deepen collaboration underneath the Singapore-Australia Green Economy Agreement with new and refreshed initiatives to help power safety and transition to net-zero emissions by 2050. Australia and Singapore can even:

a.    Work in the direction of a legally binding bilateral instrument for the
cross-border motion of carbon dioxide for offshore geological sequestration, in order to satisfy Australia’s obligations underneath the London Protocol;

b.    Collaborate on batteries, and hydrogen and ammonia certification schemes;

c.    Implement the Green and Digital Shipping Corridor;

d.    Expand cooperation on sustainable finance; and

e.    Promote bilateral partnerships between companies to drive commerce and commerce in inexperienced business sectors.

20. We are happy at this time to announce our Cross-Border Electricity Trade Framework between Australia and Singapore. At the regional degree, we’ll endeavour to catalyse regional cross-border electrical energy buying and selling and advance the ASEAN Power Grid, together with by collaboration on requirements improvement and harmonisation, governance, subsea energy cables, and Renewable Energy Certificates. We can even discover new avenues for cooperation, together with working with the personal sector to mobilise the financing required for regional power connectivity initiatives.

21. As a part of our efforts to help power resilience in Southeast Asia, we’ll think about establishing an funding roundtable involving the Australian authorities and the personal sector.

22. We will develop cooperation on local weather and surroundings, together with discussions between our officers on adaptation, threat and resilience, round economic system, negotiations on the internationally legally-binding instrument on plastic air pollution and help for the UN Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ).

Forging New Frontiers

23. We recognise the demonstrated worth of, and immense potential for collaboration between Australia and Singapore in frontier domains and public well being. Our partnerships within the areas of science and innovation, well being, and pandemic preparedness will contribute to regional prosperity and set new benchmarks for worldwide cooperation.

24. We will set up a Cyber and Digital Senior Officials’ Dialogue and advance joint efforts underneath the MoU on Cooperation on AI and the MoU on Cyber Security Cooperation, together with in AI, digital governance and on-line security. Our digital partnership might be strengthened by cybersecurity and digital economic system cooperation, and collaboration on worldwide requirements for AI and superior communications.

25. We welcome the not too long ago signed MoU between our mental property workplaces, IP Australia and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. This MoU will pave the way in which for Australian innovators to decide on Singapore to do their worldwide patent search and examination, offering extra choices for the place such work is completed.

26. We will proceed cooperation on norms and practices on the safety and upkeep of undersea telecommunications cables.

27. We will proceed collaboration underneath the Australia-Singapore FinTech Bridge. Building on the longstanding collaboration between A*STAR and CSIRO, together with joint analysis initiatives, expertise exchanges, and shared innovation platforms, we’ll develop our science and innovation partnership, leveraging established institutional hyperlinks to drive progress in areas of mutual curiosity.

28. We reaffirm our shared dedication to advancing the peaceable, accountable, and sustainable use of outer area. Recognising the transformative potential of area applied sciences for international prosperity, safety, and connectivity, we’ll set up an everyday senior officers’ Space Dialogue to deepen area cooperation and develop collaboration between our area sectors.

29. Australia and Singapore will set up the Australia-Singapore Partnership on Innovationand Research(ASPIRE) to facilitate cooperation on the authorities and institutional ranges on analysis, innovation, and science and expertise. We can even deepen analysis ties between our main college sectors in precedence areas reminiscent of local weather and power, international well being, and rising applied sciences.