They will talk about the desert, but no one will be able to ask. The press will not have space to ask questionsThe only ministers who will attend will be from the Socialist Workers Party. The high-level meeting (RAN) with Morocco, which will be held on Thursday in Madrid, will be less transparent than the last meeting held in Rabat in February 2023.
The RAN is a bilateral institutional dialogue mechanism that brings together the two governments – in theory, on a regular basis. It is equivalent to the so-called summit with Western countries.
These meetings have alternative venues, and at the 13th RAN of Madrid dozens of related agreements will be signed Digital transformation and Administrative modernization, Risk management And prevention Natural disasters, Agriculture and fishing, Education and sportsequality sex And cooperate in Preventing violent extremism.
But in addition to sectoral agreements, they will be reviewed Many strategic projects In terms of transport, energy, environmental transformation and infrastructure, very significantly, World Cup 2030 and information exchange mechanisms.
However, Rabat’s priority goal is to take it away from Spain Final recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the entire territory of Western Saharain the aftermath Donald Trump. In addition, he advanced the demand to expand territorial waters on the Atlantic coast.
Likewise, “We’re going to start talking seriously about… Shared prosperity The model that Europe applied in Gibraltar Regarding autonomous cities Ceuta and MelillaAccording to what a foreign intelligence source revealed to this medium.
The summit will be at the request of Rabat To press “With the Sahara and some other issues that leaked into the Moroccan media about water,” confirms a deputy from the parties supporting the government. Who governs the relationship? Dominant member“It’s Morocco.”
For an active diplomat in the State Department, Spain is “Surrender behind closed doors”.
Moroccan sovereignty over the entire Sahara will not only be negotiated, but… Including its Atlantic waters and airspace Which is currently managed by Spain – as the newspaper EL ESPAÑOL has already announced – but also by “ocean waters”, confirms the same source.
“Rabat meets with the Socialist Workers’ Party”
He says: “The next thing will be the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, because with someone who has a gun on the table you cannot negotiate, and in this case Rabat.” Tish sirThe Sahrawi MP from Somar told EL ESPAÑOL.
“I think so Pedro Sanchez mortgages the future of sovereignty He added: “Spain and our relations with the Maghreb are betting everything on one card, which is for Morocco, and it is not.” Neither a reliable partner nor a neighbor that Spain can trust“.
Perhaps this is why, once again, the bilateral meeting between the two governments No minister was invited from Sumar. Minority partner of the Socialist Workers’ Party in executive power, As happened before with Podemosdefends the right to Self-determination referendum For the Sahrawi people.
“Morocco is meeting with the Socialist Workers’ Party, and not with the government of Spain, because the development of events four years ago regarding Western Sahara This was not consensual, nor was it state policy. “This was not a very strategic policy for Spain… and it was not a very smart policy.”
The important thing is that on this occasion, the venue is the Palace of Moncloa. In addition to not relying on the ministers of Sumer, There are also no planned questions from the Spanish pressAlthough Moroccan media professionals traveled to Madrid.
The usual thing at these summits is that journalists are accredited, and photographs are taken at the beginning of the meetings, after which they are held behind closed doors. But in the end, after the official signing of the agreements, They are always making statements to the media.
Until it happens Neither Sommer nor the parliamentary partners The executive authority was informed of what would be discussed with Morocco.
“We don’t know anything other than what we read in the press, and the government did not inform us,” one of the representatives explains to EL ESPAÑOL. “In this matter, He never contacted us Minister (Foreign Affairs, Jose Manuel Albarez“The only statements he makes are those he makes in Parliament.”
In fact, Albaris is scheduled to appear on Wednesday next week. The politician himself predicts: “If things go well, he will raise it to the highest levels… If things do not go well, he will try not to talk about it too much.”
Moreover, “If there is any concession in the RAN, we will find out from Rabat, not from the Sanchez government, let alone from Minister Albares,” says Tish Sidi.
Who rules in the relationship?
For the Polisario Front, there is before 2022 and after, when Pedro Sanchez and Mohammed VI Sign the call Road map After recognizing the Moroccan autonomy plan as “the most serious, credible and realistic.” So this Thursday “will be a continuation of the previous RANs”, as its representative in Spain confirms, Abdullah Al Arabi.
So that “Morocco will impose the agenda and agreements according to its exclusive needs and interests.”
As the Polisario Front warned, Rabat’s only goal is Secondary bilateral relations with Spain “For his position regarding Western Sahara,” confirms the leader of the Polisario Front in our country. Nearly four years after Sánchez’s letter to the Alaouite king, “Morocco is still keeping track of the times.”
In any case, it is the first official meeting after the three rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union of October 4, 2024, which determine A separate and distinct law Western Sahara compared to Morocco. That is, they do not confess There is no Moroccan sovereignty over the territory.
In this context, the Polisario Front warns that it “will remain vigilant to any agreements reached in the Western Sahara region” due to their potential impact on Western Sahara. If this happens, it will start “Any means at its disposal” to defend the legitimate interests of the Sahrawi people By virtue of his capacity as a legitimate representative.”