Seychelles President Danny Faure and Panaji Mayor Vitthal Chopdekar discussed areas in which the Goan capital and Victoria, capital of the African nation, could cooperate in connection with the Twinning Agreement between the two cities.
A Twinning Agreement is a social or legal tie-up between two cities, generally in geographically distinct areas, to promote cultural and commercial links.
Faure and Chopdekar discussed ways to cooperate in areas like port exchanges, marine security, tourism, heritage preservation, people-to-people contact and fisheries, officials said.
The Corporation of City of Panaji (CCP) has been nominated as the nodal agency to execute the twinning understanding arrived between India and Seychelles.
The agreement will be formally signed in New Delhi.
"We had a discussion on having cooperation between Victoria and Panaji on various fronts including culture and tourism promotion," CCP Mayor Vitthal Chopdekar told PTI today.
He said that meeting, held at a hotel in South Goa yesterday, lasted for half an hour.
President Faure, on Sunday, also visited Basilica of Bom Jesus at Old Goa, 9 kilometres from here, which houses the relics of St Francis Xavier.
The Seychelles' head of state, who arrived in Goa on Saturday, today left for New Delhi on the next leg of his 6-day India tour.
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