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Singapore Indochina
Singapore's relationship with Indochina in mid-1989
permitted
the conduct of normal commercial transactions, but
discouraged aid,
training, infrastructural development, and trade in
strategic
goods. In April 1989, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the
Ministry
of Foreign Affairs informed Singaporean companies that
they could
not invest in Vietnam until the Vietnamese had withdrawn
their
troops from Cambodia. The companies were allowed to
conduct
negotiations with Vietnam, but could not commit any
investments
until the Vietnamese withdrawal was complete. A few
Singaporean
companies had invested in Vietnam while normal commercial
transactions were still going on, before the government
had a clear
policy concerning investments. Minister for Foreign
Affairs Wong
Kan Seng indicated in 1989, however, that Singapore was
looking
beyond the Cambodian problem to its future relations with
Indochina.
Data as of December 1989
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