Seychelles President Danny Faure paid a visit to Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on his second day of six-day official visit to India. After visiting Ashram president Faure wrote message in the visitor’s book that is based on Gandhi’s ideals. “The principle of non-violence is what we need to teach the children of our world, and what was expressed by Gandhi many years ago remains relevant today”.
At the end of visitor’s book President wrote the quote of Mahatma Gandhi: “An eye for an eye will make the world blind”.
Seychellois President Danny faure is scheduled to hold bilateral talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on issues like geopolitical cooperation. Faure’s visit is important in the wake of Indian cooperation because its parliament recently blocked a joint defence project that involved both the Indian Ocean region countries cooperating to jointly develop infrastructure for a naval base on Seychelles’ Assumption Islands.
Back in 2015, Modi’s visit to Seychelles had signed an agreement on the Assumption Island project. Earlier this year, an updated version of the original deal was finalized by the two countries.
At a press conference on June 4, Faure had stated that Seychelles will develop military facilities at Assumption Island on its own and that the project with India ‘will not move forward’. He also said that the issue would not be discussed with the Indian leadership during his visit to New Delhi.
India has been eager about facilitating a deal with the African nation so as to augment its strategic hold in the Indian Ocean region as it faces tough competition from China which has been expanding its military presence across the ocean.
