Indian PM leaves Seychelles after official visit |12 March 2015

The Indian Prime Minister, His Excellency Narendra Modi, left Seychelles yesterday afternoon after a one-day official visit to the republic.

He was seen off at the Seychelles International Airport by President James Michel and some members of his government including Vice-President Danny Faure; the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Transport, Joel Morgan; the high commissioner of Seychelles to Sri Lanka, Waven Wiliam and other high level local dignitaries.

Before leaving, Prime Minister Modi was hosted to a lunch at State House by President Michel. Other highlights of his brief visit was his presiding over the signing of bilateral agreements between the two countries; an address he made to the Indian community at the Palais des Sports and the unveiling of a plaque to inaugurate a coastal surveillance radar system at Mont Josephine.

PM Modi was in Seychelles on the first leg of a tour of three Indian Ocean countries, the two others being Mauritius and Sri Lanka.

President Michel and other guests bid goodbye to PM Modi as he boards the plane