On 23 November 2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, held video conference talks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, Vivian Balakrishnan. The talks focused on cooperation in the struggle against the Covid-19 pandemic, digitalisation and economic synergies between Italy and Singapore, Italy’s Presidency of the G20 and co-Presidency of the COP26; the Asean.