{"id":214976,"date":"2022-01-28T17:05:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T15:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/ambassador-of-saudi-arabia-delivers-a-message-to-minister-radegonde?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-01-28T17:05:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T15:05:58","slug":"ambassador-of-saudi-arabia-delivers-a-message-to-minister-radegonde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ambassador-of-saudi-arabia-delivers-a-message-to-minister-radegonde\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador of Saudi Arabia delivers a message to Minister Radegonde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/7ef6ac7a7b0a5cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/7ef6ac7a7b0a5cb\" alt=\"Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Tourism - Foreign Affairs Department, Republic of Seychelles\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/7ef6ac7a7b0a5cb\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minister Radegonde welcomed the&nbsp;Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, H.E&nbsp;Mr Khalid A. Al Salman, at&nbsp;Maison Qu&eacute;au de Quinssy today. Ambassador Al Salman&nbsp;is&nbsp;accredited to the Republic of Kenya and is based in Nairobi. He is in Seychelles as a Special Envoy of His Highness Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.&nbsp;The purpose of his visit is to personally&nbsp;deliver a&nbsp;letter&nbsp;from the&nbsp;His&nbsp;Highness Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud to Minister&nbsp;Sylvestre&nbsp;Radegonde.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was also a chance to discuss various areas of cooperation between the two countries, mainly in Tourism and projects funded by Saudi Fund for Development in Seychelles throughout the years.<\/p>\n<p>They also spoke of&nbsp;the&nbsp;challenges caused by COVID-19.Minister Radegonde explained that&nbsp;the&nbsp;Tourism&nbsp;industry remains the&nbsp;main pillar of&nbsp;Seychelles&rsquo;&nbsp;economy.&nbsp;Minister Radegonde&nbsp;noted that&nbsp;Saudi Arabia is an important source market for the Seychelles&nbsp;tourism sector.&nbsp;Although, Seychelles&nbsp;acknowledges the measures&nbsp;taken by the Saudi&nbsp;Arabian&nbsp;government and the importance of protecting its citizens from COVID-19. Minister Radegonde reassured the Ambassador that&nbsp;Seychelles remains a safe destination, respecting all health protocols in hotels and other touristic areas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also present at the meeting were Principal Secretary for Tourism, Mrs Sherin Francis, Director General for Bilateral Affairs and senior official of the Foreign Affairs Department.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Tourism &#8211; Foreign Affairs Department, Republic of Seychelles.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo Minister Radegonde welcomed the&nbsp;Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, H.E&nbsp;Mr Khalid A. Al Salman, at&nbsp;Maison Qu&eacute;au de Quinssy today. Ambassador Al Salman&nbsp;is&nbsp;accredited to the Republic of Kenya and is based in Nairobi. He is in Seychelles as a Special Envoy of His Highness Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud, Minister of Foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-214976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ambassador-of-saudi-arabia-delivers-a-message-to-minister-radegonde.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}