The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States opened a consulate general in Dakhla on Thursday, March 31, 2022, thus marking its firm support for Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara and its territorial integrity.
The inauguration ceremony was presided over by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, Nasser Bourita, and the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, in the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Affairs, International Trade and Diaspora Relations of the Commonwealth of Dominica, Kenneth Darroux.
Some 24 countries have so far opened diplomatic representations in the southern provinces of the Moroccan Sahara.
In Dakhla, the consulate of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States will rub shoulders with those of the Republic of Sierra Leone, the Republic of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, the Republic of Djibouti, the Republic of Liberia, Burkina Faso, the Republic of Guinea Bissau, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in addition to the Republic of Haiti.
