Bilateral and Multilateral Co-operation

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for facilitating and co-ordinating Singapore’s international relations. Singapore is non-aligned. It is a member of the United Nations, and several of its specialised and related agencies, and also of the Non-Aligned Movement and the Commonwealth. Singapore has participated in UN peacekeeping/observer missions in Kuwait, Angola, Namibia, Cambodia, and Timor-Leste. Singapore supports the concept of Southeast Asian regionalism and plays an active role in ASEAN, the ASEAN Regional Forum and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.