Working Visit by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to the USA - 10 to 16 February 2016

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will make a working visit to the United States (US) from 10 to 16 February 2016. PM will visit San Francisco, California, from 10 to 15 February 2016 and Sunnylands, California, to attend the Special ASEAN-US Leaders Summit from 15 to 16 February 2016. PM’s last visit to the US was in June 2014 when he visited Washington DC and New York City.

In San Francisco, PM will meet Governor of California Jerry Brown and business leaders from prominent technology companies, including Tesla CEO and SpaceX CEO/CTO Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Alphabet Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. PM will also meet Singaporeans residing in the San Francisco Bay Area and host a roundtable with Singaporean technology professionals based there, as part of our Smart Nation initiative.

In Sunnylands, US President Barack Obama will host PM and other ASEAN Leaders. The Leaders will discuss ASEAN-US economic and political-security cooperation and exchange views on regional and international issues. The Summit is the first of its kind and builds on the elevation of the ASEAN-US relationship to a “Strategic Partnership” last November at the 3rd ASEAN-US Summit in Kuala Lumpur.

PM will be accompanied by Mrs Lee, Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan and senior officials from the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Economic Development Board, the National Research Foundation and the Infocomm Development Authority in San Francisco. In Sunnylands, PM will be accompanied by Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan and senior officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During PM’s absence, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean will be the Acting Prime Minister. 

PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE
SINGAPORE
10 FEBRUARY 2016