Asean and Singapore crucial to India, says Modi at Singapore Lecture
He says India will engage with Asean, including S'pore, as his country builds the India of its dreams
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LAYING out a broad roadmap of India's foreign policy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that as his country engages with the Asia under its "Act East" policy, the Asean region in general - and Singapore in particular - will be "at the centre" of this policy, as India is bound to this region by "common policies and shared ties".
The leader of Asia's third-largest economy, in Singapore on a whirlwind two-day tour, was delivering the 37th Singapore Lecture organised by the Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute.
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