Cape Verdean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Regional Integration, Rui Alberto De Figueiredo Soares, announced on Wednesday in Rabat the forthcoming opening of a consulate general of his country in Dakhla.
In a joint press release made public following his talks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Living Abroad, Nasser Bourita, on the sidelines of the work of the 1st Ministerial Conference of Atlantic African States, Rui Alberto De Figueiredo Soares also announced the imminent installation of a Resident Embassy of the Republic of Cape Verde in Rabat.
Welcoming this decision, Bourita thanked the Cape Verdean Party for its support for the Moroccanity of the Sahara and recalled the commendable participation of the Republic of Cape Verde, at the level of its Ambassador in Dakar, at the African Ministerial Conference on the support of the African Union to the United Nations Political Process on the Sahara regional dispute, held in Marrakech on March 25, 2019.