Balakrishnan held talks with his UScounterpart Antony Blinken and the two sides agreed to extend the TCTP foranother three years, until 2025.
This fourth cycle of the Singapore-US TCTP celebrates a decade of successfulpartnership between Singapore and the US. Since its establishment, theSingapore-US TCTP has trained more than 1,500 participants from SoutheastAsia in over 57 programmes in areas such as cybersecurity, supply chainresilience, global growth and innovation, climate change and space.
The Singapore-US TCTP is one of several technicalcooperation partnerships under the Singapore Cooperation Programme (SCP),Singapore’s primary platform for sharing development experiences andexpertise with other countries. Established in 1992, the SCP hastrained over 132,000 participants from 180 countries and territories as wellas international and regional organisations. The SCP will mark its 30th anniversary in 2022./.