{"id":13916,"date":"2018-06-25T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T10:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=13916"},"modified":"2018-06-25T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T10:22:18","slug":"india-seychelles-agree-to-work-on-assumption-island-project-respect-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=13916","title":{"rendered":"India, Seychelles agree to work on Assumption Island project, respect concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>New Delhi, Jun 25 (DIN NEWS)<\/b> India and Seychelles today agreed to work together on a project to develop a naval base at the Assumption Island keeping each other&#8217;s concerns in mind after talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Danny Faure.<\/p>\n<p>India also announced a USD 100-million credit to Seychelles for augmenting its defence capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this credit, Seychelles will be able to buy defence equipment to boost its maritime capacity,&#8221; Prime Minister Modi said in his joint media statement with Faure.<\/p>\n<p>On the project to develop a naval facility at the island, which would give India a strategic advantage in the Indian Ocean Region, Modi said, &#8220;We have agreed to work together on the Assumption Island project based on each other&#8217;s rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Faure, in his remarks, said the Assumption Island project was discussed and the two countries equally engaged to work together bearing each other&#8217;s interests.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jun 25 (DIN NEWS) India and Seychelles today agreed to work together on a project to develop a naval base at the Assumption Island keeping each other&#8217;s concerns in mind after talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Danny Faure. India also announced a USD 100-million credit to Seychelles for augmenting its defence capabilities. &#8220;With this credit, Seychelles will be able to buy defence equipment to boost its maritime capacity,&#8221; Prime Minister Modi said in his joint media statement with Faure. On the project to develop a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13918,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916\/revisions\/13918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}