{"id":7548,"date":"2013-07-24T10:01:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2013\/07\/20130724_archipmi-2\/"},"modified":"2013-07-24T10:01:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T08:01:49","slug":"20130724_archipmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2013\/07\/20130724_archipmi\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore: Archi signs Memorandum of Understanding for SMEs and promotes investment in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Deputy Minister Archi visited Singapore on 23 and 24 July for an intense programme of meetings. Highlights were the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the announcement of a mission by representatives of Italy\u2019s infrastructure sector in November 2013. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Support for the economy through the di<A name=_GoBack><\/A>plomacy for growth channel, which aims to support Italy\u2019s \u201cCountry System\u201d in its internationalisation effort, was a focus of the visit.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Memorandum of Understanding for SMEs <\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Archi was accompanied by a delegation representing Italian infrastructure and banking sector companies and a representative of the local Italian Trade Agency office, for a meeting with the Minister for Trade and Industry, Lim, and the MoU signing ceremony. The Memorandum is designed to increase trade and bilateral investment flows and to encourage partnerships by Italian and Singaporean SMEs to take advantage of a Southeast Asian market that has 600 million people and growth rates averaging 6%. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Singapore is a \u201ckey partner\u201d<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u201cItaly looks to Singapore as a key partner in Southeast Asia\u201d, declared the Deputy Minister. \u201cThis MoU is an important opportunity for our two countries to deepen their economic cooperation links. It is my firm belief that complementary relationships between our SMEs can build a long-term partnership both in Europe and in Asia\u201d.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Archi also met his counterpart Grace Fu; the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Culture, Tan; and the Chair of the Temasek Investment Fund, the world\u2019s seventh in order of importance. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Trade mission focusing on infrastructure<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P>The Singaporean authorities were delighted to hear of the infrastructure mission taking place in November, which will be included in the long-term investment programme (an estimated 200 billion euros from now until 2030) introduced by the City-State. The programme is intended to renew and expand the infrastructure network: port, airport, metropolitan transport network and railway links with Malaysia.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputy Minister Archi visited Singapore on 23 and 24 July for an intense programme of meetings. Highlights were the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the announcement of a mission by representatives of Italy\u2019s infrastructure sector in November 2013. Support for the economy through the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-7548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-asia-e-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}