Brunei

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Singapore - Brunei

Overview

Relations between Singapore and Brunei are excellent. Leaders on both sides have close personal ties, and there is a regular exchange of visits at all levels.

Singapore and Brunei have long-standing arrangements such as the Currency Interchangeability Agreement (which marked its 50th anniversary in 2017), and also cooperate extensively in defence, finance, trade and investment, tourism, health, aquaculture, and education. We are also close partners in ASEAN and other international fora.

Recent Highlights

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    • The Singapore Government contributed 3,000 diagnostic tests and one polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine for the detection of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) on 25 March 2020, to support the Brunei Government’s efforts to fight the outbreak of the virus.
    • Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made a phone call to the Sultan of Brunei, His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah on 24 May 2020 to express his greetings for Hari Raya Aidilfitri. Prime Minister Lee reaffirmed his friendship with Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, and his strong support for the close cooperation between both countries.
    • Singapore and Brunei launched a Reciprocal Green Lane to facilitate essential business and official travel for residents from both countries in September 2020. Given the global COVID-19 situation, the arrangement allowed for the safe resumption of cross-border movement of a limited number of people, with the necessary safeguards in place to ensure that public health concerns on both sides were addressed.

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