Sellapan Ramanathan

Statesman

1924-07-03 – 2016-08-22

Sellapan Ramanathan, known as S. R. Nathan, was the sixth president of Singapore.

Quotes by Sellapan Ramanathan

You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us.
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Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence.
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We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.
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