Quebec City, 9 June 2018: Seychelles got the attention of the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) industrial nations today when President Danny Faure addressed them on the islands’ innovative financing for the blue economy and ocean sustainability.

President Danny Faure grabbed the attention of Canadian, island and other leaders at a roundtable of small island developing states (SIDS) at the G7 summit in Quebec, Canada today.

This year’s G7 chair Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada had invited President Faure and the leaders of 10 other island and developing countries to join France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States at a special session on ‘healthy, productive and resilient oceans and seas, coasts and communities’.  Speaking at the outreach session in the Quebec resort town of Charlevoix, President Faure also called on Mr Trudeau and Canada to play a “prominent and proactive” role in high seas negotiations that begin at the United Nations in New York this September. “Our ocean is our pathway to prosperity,” Mr Faure told leaders of the seven richest western nations as he talked about the Seychelles’ blue economy roadmap and marine spatial plan.

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Seychelles State House, 10 June 2018