{"id":555,"date":"2021-01-18T06:39:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T06:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/seychelles\/?p=555"},"modified":"2021-01-18T05:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T05:22:19","slug":"chinas-foreign-minister-to-stop-in-seychelles-on-final-leg-of-african-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/seychelles\/all-news\/chinas-foreign-minister-to-stop-in-seychelles-on-final-leg-of-african-tour","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Foreign Minister to stop in Seychelles on final leg of African tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/seychelles\">Seychelles<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>(Seychelles News Agency) &#8211; Seychelles\u2019 Foreign Affairs Ministry has announced that the State Councilor and Foreign Minister of the People\u2019s Republic of China, Wang Yi, will visit the island nation on January 8.<\/p>\n<p>Yi\u2019s one-day visit is the final leg of his five-day official tour in five African countries.During his official visit to the islands, the Chinese Foreign Minister will call on President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House and also meet with his Seychellois counterpart, Minister Sylvestre Radegonde, to discuss bilateral cooperation between the two countries. A communique from Seychelles\u2019 Foreign Affairs Department said Yi\u2019s visit follows \u201cChina\u2019s 30-year tradition of choosing Africa as the destination of Chinese foreign ministers\u2019 first overseas visit of the New Year.\u201d Before coming to Victoria, Yi visited Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and the Southern African country of Botswana. The Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister and his delegation will depart Seychelles on January 9. China and Seychelles established diplomatic ties in June 1976. Yi is the second top foreign affairs official to visit Seychelles \u2013 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean \u2013 since Ramkalawan assumed the presidency on October 26, last year. In November, the Minister for External Affairs of India, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, made a two-day official visit to the island nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Seychelles. (Seychelles News Agency) &#8211; Seychelles\u2019 Foreign Affairs Ministry has announced that the State Councilor and Foreign Minister of the People\u2019s Republic of China, Wang Yi, will visit the island nation on January 8. 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