Prime Minister Narendra Modi rounded off his two-day state visit to Singapore by weaving his charm with theIndian Diaspora, which forms approximately nine percent of the city-state’s total population, in Hall Number One and Two of the Singapore Expo venue.
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Mr Modi also met with Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong and Prime Minister Lee, who also hosted Mr Modi to lunch.
Najib said both governments will also appoint a key person to lead in the development of the convention centre as soon as possible.
“Modi had become chief terrorist from terrorist after taking oath of a India’s Prime Minister”, he added.
Referring to the positive image of the country in the world, PM Modi said the reason for it was “not Modi but you, my brothers and sisters living in foreign countries”.
“India has a dynamic and strong defence system and we would like to expand our bilateral cooperation in this area”.
India and Malaysia also agreed to discuss further with a view to concluding the signing of an MoU on transfer of sentenced prisoners to each other’s prisons.
The planned 350km project is expected to link Malaysia and Singapore in 90 minutes and had also attracted interest from Japan and South Korea.
“We hope China will be sending more students to study in Malaysia”, he said in a joint media conference with visiting Chinese premier Li Keqiang here yesterday.
Today India is among the most open economies for FDI, with most sectors on automatic route and entry and exit conditions relaxed.
Many people of India are under 35.
“Even as we celebrate the past 50 years, we want to build a partnership for the next 50 years”.
Some of the new initiatives included “Make in India”, “Digital India”, “Smart Cities” and “Skills Development” that offered significant opportunities for Malaysian businesses in India.
The agreement on infrastructure development is aimed at strengthening, promoting and developing cooperation in the areas of performance management, monitoring related to government programmes to enhance public service delivery, improve efficiency of implementation methods and procedure and develop templates and tools to monitor performance of government programmes.
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The five MoUs inked focused on cooperation in civil aviation, planning, capacity building, urban planning and governance, cyber security and cooperation to combat illicit trafficking in narcotics drugs.
