MFA PRESS STATEMENT: VISIT BY DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER MR TEO CHEE HEAN TO SAUDI ARABIA AND QATAR, 2 – 6 DECEMBER 2012 AND VISIT BY MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND WATER RESOURCES DR VIVIAN BALAKRISHNAN TO QATAR, 3 – 8 DECEMBER 2012

Deputy Prime Minister, Coordinating Minister for National Security, Minister for Home Affairs and Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Climate Change (IMCCC) Mr Teo Chee Hean will be visiting Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 2 – 4 December 2012 and Doha, Qatar from 4 – 6 December 2012. Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Dr Vivian Balakrishnan will also be visiting Doha, Qatar, from 3 – 8 December 2012.

In Riyadh, DPM Teo will meet key Saudi leaders including His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence and His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Minister of Interior. This will be DPM Teo’s introductory visit to Saudi Arabia. DPM Teo will be accompanied by senior officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In Doha, DPM Teo will attend the High-Level Segment of the United Nations Climate Change Conference1 and deliver Singapore’s National Statement. Dr Balakrishnan will also attend the ministerial meetings at the conference. Both Ministers will be supported by officials from agencies represented in the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Climate Change.

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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

SINGAPORE

2 DECEMBER 2012

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1The conference is a joint session of the 18th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP18), the 8th Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP8) and relevant subsidiary bodies