{"id":43280,"date":"2026-04-10T14:27:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=43280"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:27:29","slug":"watch-singapore-australia-prime-ministers-hold-joint-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=43280","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Singapore, Australia prime ministers hold joint press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: <span>Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese <\/span><span>reaffirmed ties between the two countries<\/span><span> and pledged to keep trade flowing during a joint press conference on Friday (Apr 10).<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Both prime ministers stressed the importance of keeping energy supply chains open during the ongoing energy crisis amid the Middle East war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The two countries play a key role in each other\u2019s energy security &#8211; Singapore is one of Australia\u2019s top suppliers of refined petroleum products, and Australia is one of Singapore\u2019s top suppliers of liquefied natural gas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The ministers also spoke about working towards establishing a legally binding protocol on economic resilience and essential supplies under the Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Mr Albanese and Mr Wong also reaffirmed the trust and relationship between the two countries, as strategic and economic partners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Mr Albanese is on a three-day official visit to Singapore until Saturday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/australia-lawrence-wong-anthony-albanese-press-conference-energy-middle-east-crisis-6048326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese reaffirmed ties between the two countries and pledged to keep trade flowing during a joint&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--z0JrWcRc--\/c_crop,h_2268,w_4032,x_0,y_720\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/04\/10\/lawrence-wong-anthony-albanese-press-conference.jpg?itok=N9v8svfn","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1211,7839,763,11697,2232,3877,576,22,157],"class_list":["post-43280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-australia","tag-conference","tag-hold","tag-joint","tag-ministers","tag-press","tag-prime","tag-singapore","tag-watch","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}