INDIAN OCEAN COMMISSION

About:

• Members: It is an intergovernmental organization that is composed of five African Indian Ocean nations: Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion (an overseas region of France), and Seychelles.
  
  
• Background: It was created in 1982 and was institutionalized in 1984 by the Victoria Agreement.
  
  
• Mandate: To serve as platform of solidarity for the entire population of the African Indian Ocean region.
  
  
• Secretariat: It is located in Port Louis, Mauritius.
  
  
• Observers: With the decision, India will join China, which was made an observer in 2016, as well as the “International Organisation of the Francophonie” or the 54-nation French-speaking collective, the European Union (EU) and Malta, which were all admitted in 2017.