its functions fully, including running art shops, providing information services and
making grants and providing assistance for arts.
National Monuments Act, 31/07/1980, Laws of Seychelles
Under this Act there is established the National Monuments Board, which has
among its principal functions to declare national monuments with the purpose of
preserve, repair, restore or insure those.
Section 9 describes the offences under the Act and establishes the penalties to those
who breach its dispositions.
• Right to national and international peace.
Article 23 ACHPR.
International Peace; Principles of solidarity and friendly relations
Preamble of the Constitution: "We, the people of Seychelles: Desirous to build a just,
fraternal and humane society in a spirit of friendship and co-operation with all peoples of the world.
Recognizing the inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human
family as the foundation for freedom, justice, welfare, fraternity, peace and unity.
Seychelles is a very young nation, as it was only after the beginning of the XVIII
Century that the first inhabitants started to populate the islands, and is even younger
as a State. In its very brief period of existence the State has adopted with the aim of
keeping fraternal relation with other States, an external politic which can be
considered as a neutral foreign policy. In the years when the world was divided into
two different political systems, Seychelles maintained good diplomatic relations with
countries on both sides.
Seychelles has excellent diplomatic and collaboration relations with such opposite
forms of government such as those of USA, France, Cuba and China.
It is use to quote once again Article 48 of the Constitution. Referring to Chapter
III the Article states: "This Chapter shall be interpreted in such a way so as not to be
inconsistent with any international obligations of Seychelles relating to human rights and freedoms
and a court shall, when interpreting the provision of this Chapter, take judicial notice of _