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Seychelles and foreign
Earnings are growing annually from licensing fees paid by foreign trawlers fishing in Seychelles ' territorial waters.
The decision to let the currency trade freely as part of the IMF rescue package means that Seychelles is the smallest country in the world that has a completely independent currency-one that is neither pegged, nor an adopted foreign currency, nor a common currency used within a larger monetary union.
Although foreign banks operate branches in Seychelles, the government owns the two local banks — the Development Bank of Seychelles, which mobilizes resources to fund development programs, and the Seychelles Saving Bank, a bank for savings and current accounts.
Leading members of the party over the years have been René, James Michel ( formerly the chief of staff of the armed forces, information minister, finance minister and vice president from 1996-2004 ; he is currently the President of Seychelles ), Guy Sinon, Jacques Hodoul ( a former foreign minister who was regarded as the party's chief ideologue ), Joseph Belmont ( the current Vice President of Seychelles ), and Maxime Ferrari ( a former René loyalist who later supported the opposition and wrote an autobiography ).

Seychelles and policy
Seychelles follows a policy of what it describes as " positive " nonalignment and strongly supports the principle of reduced superpower presence in the Indian Ocean.

Seychelles and position
The Indian subcontinent was at one time next to the east coast of the Seychelles, but seafloor spreading has moved the landmass to its current position, where it has collided and fused with the continent of Asia.

Seychelles and has
Since Seychelles ' independence in 1976, per capita output in this Indian Ocean archipelago has expanded to roughly seven times the old near-subsistence level.
In an effort to increase agricultural self-sufficiency, Seychelles has undertaken steps to make the sector more productive and to provide incentives to farmers.
In addition to the now booming tourism and building / real estate markets, Seychelles has renewed its commitment to developing its financial services sector.
The Seychelles President claims that this has opened the door to a new industry for his country and encouraged economic growth by further removing over-reliance on traditional trades like fisheries and tourism, which is now falling rapidly as the country's main income but nevertheless, has experienced significant growth in recent years.
Atlas has been acquired by Cable & Wireless Seychelles in 2005.
In terms of sea transport, the main port is Victoria, and Seychelles has no merchant marine.
The Seychelles government is one of the proponents of the Indian Ocean zone of peace concept and it has promoted an end to the United States presence on Diego Garcia.
Seychelles has an embassy in Paris.
Seychelles has an embassy in Beijing.
Seychelles has a High Commission in Kuala Lumpur.
Seychelles has a High Commission in Pretoria.
The UNCCD has 194 country Parties: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, the Republic of Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Because of its long isolation, the Seychelles hosts several unique species including the Coco de mer, a palm which has the largest seeds of any plant and the world's largest population of giant tortoises.
The Common Cuckoo has also occurred as a vagrant in countries including Barbados, the United States of America, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Indonesia, Palau, Seychelles, Taiwan and China.
It has invaded ecosystems from Hawaii to Seychelles, and formed supercolonies on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
It has been introduced into a wide range of tropical and subtropical environments including Caribbean islands, some Indian Ocean islands ( Seychelles, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Cocos Islands and the Christmas Islands ) and some Pacific islands ( New Caledonia, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Okinawa, Vanuatu, Micronesia and the Galapagos archipelago )
It has been recorded that A. gracilipes moves at about 37 – 400 meters a year in Seychelles.
It formerly also was found on St Pierre, Chauve-Souris and Ile Ronde ( Round Island, an islet near Praslin ) in the Seychelles group, but has become extinct on these islands.
This palm has been lost from the wild from three Seychelles islands within its former range.
The Aldabra Island day gecko, or Aldabra day gecko ( Phelsuma abbotti abbotti ), has been found on the Aldabra Atoll ( Seychelles ).
The species has also been introduced to the Seychelles, and onto the Hawaiian Islands, where it is established on both sides of O ' ahu, both sides of the Big Island, and on Maui ( McKeown, 1993 ).
Further afield, it has been recorded as a vagrant to Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Australia, the Seychelles, Bermuda, Canada, the US, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes, the Azores, Madeira, and the Canary Islands.

Seychelles and placed
He was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus while serving as Ambassador to the Seychelles and placed on medical leave.
The second specimen, a complete skull sent from the Seychelles by a M. Leduc in 1839, was named Ziphius seychellensis by the English zoologist John Edward Gray in 1846 ; the French scientist Paul Gervais later placed this specimen in the genus Dioplodon (" two-toothed ").
Troops from the CDF, mainly the Ceylon Light Infantry and the Ceylon Garrison Artillery were placed outside Ceylon undertaking garrison duties on the Seychelles and the Cocos Islands.

Seychelles and generally
They are generally not found on oceanic islands, with the exception of the Seychelles.

Seychelles and left
The island was the last refuge of the Seychelles Warbler, with only 26 – 29 individual birds left in 1959.

Seychelles and within
Island nations within the ocean are Madagascar ( the world's fourth largest island ), Comoros, Seychelles, Maldives, Mauritius, and Sri Lanka.
The Seychelles became a crown colony separate from Mauritius in 1903 and independence was granted in 1976, as a republic within the Commonwealth.
A High Commission could also be charged with the last phase of a decolonization, as in the crown colony of the Seychelles, granted autonomy on 12 November 1970: the last Governor, Colin Hamilton Allen ( 1921 – 1993 ) stayed on as the only colonial High Commissioner from 1 October 1975, when self-rule under the Crown was granted, until 28 June 1976 when the Seychelles became an independent republic within the Commonwealth.
However, nothing precluded the transport of slaves within the colony, and so the ancestors of the Chagossians were routinely shipped from Mauritius to Rodrigues to the Chagos to the Seychelles, and elsewhere.

Seychelles and Movement
The SNP was formed by the merger of three separate opposition parties in 1994: the Seychelles National Movement, led by Gérard Hoarau ; the National Alliance Party, led by Philippe Boullé ( an independent presidential candidate in the 2001 presidential election ); and Parti Seselwa, led by Wavel Ramkalawan.

Seychelles and .
These include: Albania, Afghanistan Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, DR Congo, Egypt, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Holy See ( Vatican City ), Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Order of Malta, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Uruguay, and Vietnam.
* Alphonse Atoll, in the Outer Islands of the Seychelles.
* Alphonse Group, a group of atolls in the Outer Islands of the Seychelles.
* Alphonse Island, in the Outer Islands of the Seychelles.
By comparison, estimates of the population density per square kilometer of the Indian Ocean's other island microstates ranged from 241 ( Seychelles ) to 690 ( Maldives ) in 1993.
In 1985 Madagascar, Mauritius, and Seychelles agreed to admit Comoros as the fourth member of the Indian Ocean Commission ( IOC ), an organization established in 1982 to encourage regional cooperation.
In 1993 Mauritius and Seychelles had two of the five embassies in Moroni, and Mauritius and Madagascar were connected to the republic by regularly scheduled commercial flights.
Similarly, President James Mancham's attendance of the 1977 CHOGM gave Prime Minister France-Albert René the opportunity to seize power in the Seychelles.
Between 1968 and 1973, the Chagossians, then numbering about 2, 000 people, were expelled by the British government to Mauritius and Seychelles to allow the United States to establish a military base on the island.
In 1962 the Chagos Agalega Company of the British colony of Seychelles purchased the Societe Huiliere de Diego et Peros and moved company headquarters to Seychelles.
The plantation workers and their families were relocated to the plantations on Peros Bahnos and Salomon atolls to the northwest ; those who requested were transported to the Seychelles or Mauritius.
In 1972, the UK decided to close the plantations throughout the Chagos, including those on Peros Banhos and the Salomon Islands, and deported the Ilois to their ancestral homes on either the Seychelles or Mauritius.
All the inhabitants of Diego Garcia were involuntarily relocated to other islands in the Chagos Archipelago or to Mauritius or Seychelles by 1971 to satisfy the requirements of a UK / US Exchange of Notes signed in 1966 to depopulate the island when the US constructed a base upon it.
The BIOT administration was moved to Seychelles following the independence of Mauritius in 1968 until the independence of Seychelles in 1976, and to a desk in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London since.
The area of long-term eruption ( the hotspot ), known as the Réunion hotspot, is suspected of both causing the Deccan Traps eruption and opening the rift that once separated the Seychelles plateau from India.
As of 2011 Air Seychelles operates the RAF air link, using Boeing 767s.
From 1914 to 1958 concessions to exploit the islands were given to Seychelles companies.
The island is located off the Southeastern African coast, northwest from Seychelles, and its capital city was Hammer Bay.
Examples are Madagascar and Socotra off Africa ; New Zealand ; New Caledonia ; the Kerguelen Islands ; and some of the Seychelles.
Granite islands include Seychelles and Tioman.
International tourism is a significant factor in the local economy of Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Réunion, Hawaii and the Maldives, among others.
* 1977 – A coup takes place in Seychelles.

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