Diplomats from Cambodia and the Seychelles, Africa’s smallest country with a population slightly under 100,000 people, signed a series of agreements Thursday in Phnom Penh to strengthen ties in the fields of tourism, agriculture and investment.
Seychelles Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Paul Adam met with a Cambodian delegation led by Ouch Borith, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to sign six deals that will, among other things, see Cambodia export more of its agricultural products to help feed the Seychelles’ tourism sector, which receives up to 300,000 tourists per year.
“We have exchanged cooperation between both countries in which Seychelles has asked for its agriculture sector to be strengthened through importing goods from Cambodia,” Mr. Borith said after the meeting.
Only a small fraction of land on the Seychelles’ 155 islands is used for growing crops.
Mr. Adam said the new agreements would give the Seychelles more food security.
“We share an opportunity to develop economic ties by strengthening people-to-people contact,” he said.
