Morocco and Spain will hold a high-level meeting this week in Madrid, which was announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs last Thursday, one hour after it learned that José Luis Abalos and Koldo García had been sent to prison for… Accusations of corruption … Within PSOE. It is striking that this meeting, in which the government could boast of its good relations with Morocco, was hidden, and was reported by the ministry headed by José Manuel Albarez in a five-line statement.
The last RAN meetings were held in February 2023 in Rabat, and marked the end of the diplomatic crisis caused by the Sánchez government after hosting the leader of the Polisario Front, Ibrahim Ghali, in Spain in April 2021. During that trip to Rabat, Mohammed VI did not receive Sánchez because he was not in Morocco those days.
This RAN comes weeks after the United Nations accepted Rabat’s proposal on… Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara. But this statement does not mean that the Sahara belongs to Morocco. Spain, which has historically sided with the Sahrawis, changed its position when Sanchez sent a letter to Mohammed VI supporting his proposal, saying that ending the five-decade conflict was most realistic. Sanchez made this change without consulting the House of Representatives. He fulfilled Morocco’s first demand to begin negotiations on the end of A Diplomatic distancing Which cost Spain an unprecedented immigration crisis and the cessation of trade exchanges.
Sources consulted by the ABC warn of the “danger” of this RAN, which was “announced without any foresight” when it is “organised six months in advance”. They believe that this will only create a “new shopping list” for Morocco. The same sources explained, “What is most likely is that they will ask Sanchez to move forward with regard to the Sahara and say that the Moroccan proposal is the only possible proposal,” considering that this proposal was “a demand from Morocco, which was encouraged” by the United Nations resolution and won the classification battle in the European Union this week. The last is the European Parliament’s approval to market fruits and vegetables from Western Sahara in Europe without specifying their source, which is considered a “victory” for Rabat after a dispute. Express agreement “signed four days ago” Until the end of the twelve-month period imposed by the Court of Justice of the European Union in a ruling on a trade agreement between the European Union and Morocco, which stated that the Sahrawi people agreed that the designation of origin of these products should not appear. The approval came after the European Parliament rejected by a majority of one vote the objection submitted by the European People’s Party.
before, Rabat was subjected to two strikes – Fishing and agricultural agreements – left without effect after two rulings by the European Court of Justice, whose operations were supported by the Paris Protocol, realizing that fishermen and farmers were left unprotected. “Morocco realizes that the government may change soon He will try to get the most profit Another source says: “Sanchez will obey Rabat and do like Trump at the end of his term, when he published a tweet in which he said that the United States recognizes the Moroccan Sahara.”