Sierra Leone on Tuesday has expressed its full support for Morocco's territorial integrity.

It considers the Moroccan Autonomy Initiative as the only "credible, serious and realistic" solution to the dispute over the Moroccan Sahara.

This stance was expressed in a joint communiqué issued following talks between Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates, Nasser Bourita, and Sierra Leone's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Timothy Musa Kabba.

In the communiqué, Sierra Leone's Mr Musa Kabba reiterated his country's firm support of Morocco's territorial integrity, which was reinforced by the opening, in August 2021, of a Sierra Leonean Consulate General in Dakhla.

It also acknowledged Morocco's participation on January 15, 2021, in the Ministerial Conference in support of the autonomy initiative under Moroccan sovereignty, at the invitation of the Kingdom and the United States of America.

In this regard, he expressed his full support for the UN-led process to reach a realistic, practical and lasting solution to the Moroccan Sahara issue.