SINGAPORE – Forty-four countries, including 54 ministerial-level delegates, will attend the 23rd Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD), which takes place from May 29 to 31 at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore.
Vietnamese President To Lam, who is also the general secretary of his country’s Communist Party, will deliver the keynote speech on May 29, with Timor-Leste’s President Jose Ramos-Horta scheduled to give a special address the following day.
President Tharman Shanmugaratnam will host delegates to a reception at the Istana on May 30.
Other notable attendees include the Deputy Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who is also the Minister of State for Defence Affairs; Shanghai Cooperation Organisation secretary-general Nurlan Yermekbayev; and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
Organised by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, the dialogue is Asia’s premier defence summit for discussing critical security challenges in the Asia-Pacific region.
Representatives from 47 countries had attended the 2025 dialogue, with French President Emmanuel Macron delivering a keynote speech that marked the first time a European leader had done so during the forum.
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