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Seychelles – United States relations

Seychelles	United States

Seychelles – United States relations arebilateral relations betweenSeychelles and theUnited States.

The year 1963 marked the beginning of an official U.S. presence in Seychelles when the U.S. Air Force Tracking Station was built and put into operation onMahé. The USAF Tracking Station facilities were situated on land that was leased from the Seychelles Government ($4.5 million annually).

The station's complement consisted of five uniformed Air Force personnel (two officers and three sergeants), 65 employees ofLoral Corporation and Johnson Instruments, and 150 Seychellois employees. The USAF Tracking Station officially closed down on September 30, 1996.Peace Corps Volunteers served in Seychelles between 1974 and 1995.

A U.S. consulate was opened in May 1976 and became an embassy after Seychelles' independence in June 1976. The embassy was subsequently closed in August 1996, and the United States opened a consular agency on September 2, 1996, to provide services to residents of Seychelles. The U.S. embassy was reopened inVictoria in June 2023.^[1]

In the 2010United States diplomatic cables leak a 2009 cable revealed that USdrones carried out missions overSomalia and theHorn of Africa from the Seychelles. (seeUnited States drone base in Seychelles) According to Seychelles officials the drones alsotrack pirates in regional waters.^[2]

• Foreign relations of Seychelles
• Foreign relations of the United States

 This article incorporatespublic domain material fromU.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets.United States Department of State.

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• Bilateral relations of the United States
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