BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS.

Eleventh Meeting of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.
Flag and map of Montserrat Island.
First stamp in a set of 8, issued on 28.05.1987.
Face value: 10 United States cents.
Printing: Offset lithography.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 590.
- Scott No. 577.
- StampWorld No. 590.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 630.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 567.

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS; French: Organisation des États de la Caraïbe orientale, OECO) is an inter-governmental organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration, protection of human and legal rights, and the encouragement of good governance between countries and territories in the Eastern Caribbean. It also performs the role of spreading responsibility and liability in the event of natural disaster. The administrative body of the OECS is the Commission, which is based in Castries, the capital of Saint Lucia. The OECS was created on 18 June 1981, with the Treaty of Basseterre, which was named after the capital city of St. Kitts and Nevis. The members of the Organization are: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The associate members are: Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe and Martinique.