Senegal’s consulate has been opened in Dakhla, in Moroccan Sahara
On Monday, Senegal opened a consulate general in Morocco’s Dakhla, in the Moroccan Sahara, so it’s becoming the tenth country to open a consulate during a year.
On his part, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, stated that the disagreement about the Moroccan Sahara could not be resolute without Algeria.
He also affirmed: I agree with Algeria’s Foreign Minister (Sabri Boukadoum) that the solution to the Sahara issue will only be achieved through dialogue between the two real parties to the issue, which we have always called for, with Morocco and Algeria sitting at the dialogue table.
Consulate launch
At the consulate inauguration, Bourita was present with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese Abroad, Aissata Tall Sall, where the two parties contracted three Memorandums of Understanding about technical collaboration in the sector of civil aviation, communications and the digital economy.
Twenty-one countries
In Dakhla and Laayoune, there were the inaugurations of twenty-one countries consulates, while Djibouti, Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Equatorial Guinea, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo opened consulates in Dakhla. Also, the Union of the Comoros, Gabon, the Central African Republic, Burundi, Zambia, Sao Tome and Principe, Côte d’Ivoire, Eswatini, Jordan, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates opened diplomatic representations in Laayoune. Whereas, the United States declared that it would open its consulate in Dakhla.
When he spoke at a common press briefing with Tall Sall, Bourita indicated that the sovereign decision taken by Senegal reveals the very old history of the friendship between the two countries, confirms the Moroccan identity of the Sahara, and testifies, once again, to the steadfast position of the firm support of the brotherly country of Senegal for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom.
