US EditionSingapore to open embassy in Mexico City in 2026 as part of deepening ties
Singapore will deepen ties with Mexico through economic, cultural, and environmental cooperation, with bilateral trade growing over 60% in 2024, officials said.
- During his first state visit to Mexico, President Tharman Shanmugaratnam announced Singapore will open an embassy in Mexico City in 2026, its first in the Spanish-speaking world.
- Bilateral trade grew by over 60 per cent in 2024 and Singapore's investments in Mexico exceed $2 billion, deepening strategic, economic and cultural ties between Southeast Asia and Latin America.
- Two memorandums were signed covering international development cooperation and coral reef restoration, both presidents witnessed the signings, and Singaporean business delegates showed interest in infrastructure, ports, logistics and digital transformation.
- In a statement on Tuesday, Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the embassy will strengthen bilateral economic and people-to-people links and enhance consular support for Singaporeans, while Mexico will host its 87 resident embassies.
- Singapore rarely opens new missions, with recent embassies in Timor-Leste, Israel and Oman, and the move occurs amid global change and shifting supply chains, adding strategic significance to ties.
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Singapore to open embassy in Mexico next year
SINGAPORE: Singapore will open an embassy in Mexico in 2026 in view of "deepening ties" between the two countries, said President Tharman Shanmugaratnam on Monday (Dec 1)."This is a significant milestone, as it will be Singapore's first embassy in the Spanish-speaking world, and only our second in Latin Ameri
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Business TimesSingapore to open embassy in Mexico City in 2026 as part of deepening ties
Singapore will open an embassy in Mexico City in 2026, deepening ties and fostering new opportunities for economic and cultural collaboration. Read more at straitstimes.com.
15 Singaporean companies interested in investing in Mexico. Business Forum during President Tharman Shanmugaratnam's visit. Regeneración, December 2nd […] The entry Singapore will open a permanent embassy in Mexico was first published on RegeneraciónMX.
The Singapore government has strengthened its relations with Mexico in the face of economic uncertainty and the need to diversify markets to ensure more resilient supply chains.In a first action, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, president of Singapore, announced that his country will open in 2026 an Embassy in Mexico, which will be the first one it has in a Spanish-speaking country.Important context: Singapore has few embassies in the world and Shanmugar…
President Claudia Sheinbaum and her Singaporean counterpart Tharman Shanmugaratnam reinforced the bilateral relationship on Monday on a state visit, which coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations and during which both governments announced the opening of the first resident embassy of Singapore in a Spanish-speaking country. During a joint press conference in National Palace, Sheinbaum stressed that the…
ARTURO PARAMOThe governments of Mexico and Singapore signed two agreements to strengthen their commercial relationship, in addition to the fact that that Asian country formalized the opening of its embassy. “As a demonstration of the shared will to deepen our cooperation, it said that important instruments were signed, one very interesting in the area of reef restoration among the environmental areas of the environmental ministries of our countr…
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