THE Singapore Government's Ambassador in Washington DC, Chan Heng Chee has delivered a document, dated June 30, to Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell and Ambassador-at-Large Luis CdeBaca on Saturday containing its rebuttal of a US government report accusing Singapore of not doing enough to curb sex and labour trafficking. The six-page point by point document criticised the annual Trafficking in Persons report, published on June 14, for wrong assertions and factual errors.
It made the stand that Singapore did not have a serious human trafficking problem, and said Singapore will continue its calibrated and pragmatic approach rather than 'blindly follow a one-for-all operating model just to achieve a better technical ranking' on the US report. MORE
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