Spanish and Moroccan Foreign Ministers certify that the relationship between Madrid and Rabat faces the “best moment in their history” after a three -year diplomatic crisis
Albares’s counterpart recognizes that Sánchez’s turn over the Sahara in March 2022 was a “turning point” and that there is now more “trust” and “positive spirit” between the two countries
Bilateral relations between Spain and Morocco are in “the best moment in their history”according to the Foreign Minister, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, in a joint institutional declaration with his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita, who says that “It is not a diplomatic slogan, but reality”. The socialist has thus received his Moroccan counterpart, after his visit to Washington and Paris, this Holy Thursday by surprise in the Palacio de Viana to “celebrate the excellent condition” of the Madrid-Rabat relationship almost six years after his last visit to our country, which took place on November 27, 2019 when he met with his then homologous Josep Borrell prior exploded of the diplomatic crisis between both nations.
The meeting between Albares – who, unlike his counterpart, has moved several times to the neighboring country, the last one in February last year – and Bourita was also aimed fold against Marreucos and deliver Western Sahara after 46 years. A position, has celebrated Bourita in the presence of Albares, which “in parallel to international opinion” is already They do not want a solution to the problem after fifty years «.
Spain did not restore broken ties with Morocco until Sánchez ceded to the pressures of the Alauí kingdom, which requested clarity in its position on the Western Sahara, to endorse First instance by Rabat and not for Moncloa. The next month, as already said, Sánchez himself displaced to Rabat to seal peace with the Moroccan monarch. «On April 7, 2022 it was a turning point in our relationship; Before there was not so much confidence Neither so much positive spirit, ”Bourita acknowledged this Thursday at the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry, while explaining that” the logic of the relationship [entre ambos países] It has changed and advanced a lot ». Since then, communication with Spain is “easy” and “there are no surprises,” has abounded before sealing the encounter with a hug and asking Albares, whom the Moroccan has called “friend”, moving towards greater cooperation between the two states.
Albares, meanwhile, has stressed that the commitments between Spain and Morocco «follow Fulfilling at a good pace«In the face of a future bilateral summit provided in Madrid. Proof of this, he said, is the recent opening of the customs of Ceuta and Melilla, the cooperative cooperation, the “excellent” state of economic-commercial ties with the Alauí kingdom or the celebration of the 2030 Male World Cup.
This was how the socialist leader, standing on the side of Morocco in the dispute and giving him the territory 46 years later, a diplomatic crisis closed more than three years ago Between Spain and his southern neighbor who dates back to postpandymia times with hospitalization in April 2021 of the Leader of the Polisario Front (political arm of Saharawi independence), Brahim Gali, in a Logroño hospital to undergo a treatment against COVID-19-the wear of the then Foreign Minister, Aracha González Laya, for this crisis, for this crisis, the He would replace Albares – and that later, he worsened with the assault on the border of Ceuta on May 17 and 18 of that same year with more than 10,000 Moroccans crossing next Spanish.
However, it is a conflict originally initiated with the recognition of Moroccan sovereignt High Level Meeting (RAN) between Spain and Morocco planned for the 17th of that same month and finally held in February 2023 in Rabat. An appointment in which, it should be remembered, Mohamed VI gave Sánchez, dispatched the head of the Spanish Executive with a phone call that occurred from Gabon.
With Sánchez’s turn over the Sahara, the PSOE and Unidos Podem Dream Saharawi to become an independent nation with the celebration of the fiance referendum of self -determination, which should be organized by the United Nations to offer a solution to the unfinished decolonizing process initiated by our country on February 26, 1976 with the withdrawal of the last troops of the Spanish army.
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