The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States opened, Thursday, a consulate general in Dakhla, marking its firm support to Morocco's sovereignty over its Sahara and its territorial integrity.
The inauguration ceremony was presided over by Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, Nasser Bourita and Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, in the presence of Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Business 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 join 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.