Rohit Rathish appointed as High Commissioner of India to Seychelles

New Delhi [India], September 4 (ANI): Rohit Rathish, Joint Secretary successful the Ministry of External Affairs, was appointed arsenic the High Commissioner of India to Seychelles.

Rathish, an Indian Foreign Service serviceman of the 2006 batch, volition instrumentality the duty shortly, MEA said.

India's bilateral engagement with Seychelles is characterised by our humanities contacts and continuous enactment to Seychelles for its security.

Today, India-Seychelles relations embody adjacent friendship, knowing and cooperation. It was successful the twelvemonth 1770 that a tiny radical of 5 Indians landed successful Seychelles arsenic plantation workers on with 7 African slaves and 15 French colonists, and were recorded arsenic the archetypal inhabitants of the Islands.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's authoritative sojourn (10-11 March 2015) to Seychelles was the archetypal Prime Ministerial-level sojourn from India successful 34 years. It was a highly palmy sojourn with substantive outcomes: signing of 4 Agreements/MoUs, inauguration of the Coastal Surveillance Radar System (CRS) Project, announcements of gifting of a 2nd Dornier craft to Seychelles and a 3-month gratis visa for Seychelles nationals for question to India.

Meanwhile, earlier this week, the Ministry of External Affairs appointed Deepak Mittal arsenic the adjacent Ambassador of India to the United Arab Emirates.

The IFS serviceman from the 1998 batch has antecedently served arsenic India's Ambassador to Qatar. He played a cardinal relation successful establishing the archetypal ceremonial diplomatic interaction betwixt India and the Taliban aft the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.

Deepak Mittal met Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, past caput of the Taliban's Political Office successful Doha, successful 2021. (ANI)