The Diplomat
The Republic of Seychelles has opened a new Honorary Consulate, to be based in Seville, headed by Máximo Cerezo Plata.
The Seychelles, an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, does not have an embassy in Spain, although the ambassador in Paris has multiple accreditation in Madrid. In the case of Spain, matters in the Seychelles fall under the competence of the ambassador in Ethiopia.
The new consulate will have jurisdiction in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, where there has never been one before, and joins the Seychelles’ existing consulates in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. All of them are honorary.
The Consulate was created in July this year and the office has been taken over by Máximo Cerezo, who is a management and presidency consultant (Organisational, Investments & Hotel and Real Estate Assets, International).
As Cerezo explains on the Consulate’s website, the aim of the Consulate is “to promote exchange and cooperation, to deepen the mutual understanding of two peoples so similar, so brotherly, to defend in accordance with the law the legitimate rights and interests of Seychellois citizens and companies in Andalusia, and to provide the most humane and fair consular service to Seychellois and foreign citizens”.
