Editing Foreign relations of Singapore (section)

==International organizations==

===APEC===

The [[Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation]] (APEC) is based in Singapore, of which Singapore is a founding member of.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.apec.org/About-Us/About-APEC/History|title=History|website=www.apec.org|access-date=23 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124005732/https://www.apec.org/About-Us/About-APEC/History|archive-date=24 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Singapore has long recognised the importance of APEC as an essential platform for promoting economic linkages and its benefits towards strengthening regional peace and security between member economies. Singapore has endorsed APEC's efforts at regional economic integration as well as its non-trade agendas of human resource development, emergency preparedness and health.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mfa.gov.sg/content/mfa/international_organisation_initiatives/apec.html|title=APEC|website=www.mfa.gov.sg|access-date=23 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123190411/https://www.mfa.gov.sg/content/mfa/international_organisation_initiatives/apec.html|archive-date=23 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> Singapore has since hosted the APEC forum in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.apec.org/Press/Features/2009/0201_APEC_Singapore_2009_Sustaining_Growth_Connecting_the_Region|title=APEC Singapore 2009: Sustaining Growth, Connecting the Region|website=www.apec.org|access-date=23 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124005734/https://www.apec.org/Press/Features/2009/0201_APEC_Singapore_2009_Sustaining_Growth_Connecting_the_Region|archive-date=24 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

===INTERPOL===

The International Criminal Police Organization [[INTERPOL]] has opened its Global Complex for Innovation, or IGCI, in [[Singapore]] in 2015. As of 2016, the IGCI houses a global Command and Coordination Centre, the Organization's Capacity Building and Training Directorate, an Innovation Centre annex Cyber Research Lab, and the Cybercrime Directorate, which also incorporates the building's Cyber Fusion Centre. The building is also used for large-scale projects and operations with a global impact, law enforcement trainings and cross-sector conferences with a nexus in the [[ASEAN]] region.

===G20===

Singapore, although not a [[G20]] member, has been invited to participate in G20 summits and its related processes in 2010, 2011 and from 2013 to 2017 as a representative of the Global Governance Group.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/events/2010GAWGFC/7/Stmt_Singapore.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=23 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102153417/http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/events/2010GAWGFC/7/Stmt_Singapore.pdf |archive-date=2 November 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> In February 2017, Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr [[Vivian Balakrishnan]] attended the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Bonn.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/vivian-balakrishnan-to-attend-g20-foreign-ministers-meeting-7596504|title=Vivian Balakrishnan to attend G20 foreign ministers' meeting|access-date=23 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123190636/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/vivian-balakrishnan-to-attend-g20-foreign-ministers-meeting-7596504|archive-date=23 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>