New Delhi, Sept. 4 -- Rohit Rathish, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, was appointed as the High Commissioner of India to Seychelles.

Rathish, an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 2006 batch, will take the assignment shortly, MEA said.

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

Today, India-Seychelles relations embody close friendship, understanding and cooperation. It was in the year 1770 that a small group of five Indians landed in Seychelles as plantation workers along with seven African slaves and 15 French colonists, and were recorded as the first inhabitants of the Islands.

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