Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng on Monday reiterated the city state's commitment to security for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders meeting which will be held here in November this year.

According to Channel NewsAsia reports on Monday night, Wong, who is also Singapore's Home Affairs Minister, said that the country is not letting its guard down.

Stressing that he understood the regional security situation, he said the city state is widely exposed to threats by people who want to do the city state harm.

The key is to ensure that the country remains a hard target for terrorists, he added.

Leaders from the 21-member group will attend the two-day meeting from Nov. 14 to 15.

In recent days, there were media reports of a plot to attack the APEC meeting that was uncovered during investigations into the Jakarta bombings in July. But on Sunday, Singapore's Law and Second Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam called them "unverified rumors".

Source: Xinhua