
Spanish PM Sanchez to Make Two-Day Official Visit to Morocco
The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchez, is expected to fly to Morocco this Thursday for a two-day working visit.

The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchez, is expected to fly to Morocco this Thursday for a two-day working visit.

The Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, assured that the official visit that President Pedro Sanchez will make to Morocco in "the next few days" will bear tangible "fruits" of the new relationship between the two countries.

The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchez, will make an official visit to Morocco next week. It will mark the beginning of "a new stage in relations" between the two countries, after Spain’s change on the Sahara .

Many Moroccans continue to display their opposition to the normalization of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel. They organized a protest march last Wednesday.

José Manuel Albares, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, will not come to Rabat this Friday, April 1st, to meet his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita as planned. This meeting has been canceled due to the upcoming visit of the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchez, to Morocco. The head of Spanish diplomacy will be part of the delegation.

Spain and Morocco have ended a ten-month crisis after Spain publicly declared its support for Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara. The King of Spain, Felipe VI, played an important role in the resumption of relations between the two countries.

The Ukrainian ambassadors to Morocco and Georgia have been recalled by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, due to their inability "to defend the interests of the country".

On a visit to Morocco since Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was received on Tuesday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad, Nasser Bourita. On the agenda of the exchanges between the two men, the strategies to be adopted to make the most of the partnership between the two countries.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Morocco on Monday evening for a two-day working visit.

Present since Sunday at the "historic" Negev Summit, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has announced that Morocco plans to strengthen its diplomatic presence in Israel.

Pekka Hyvönen, the Finnish ambassador to Morocco, posted a tweet on Morocco in which he openly criticized Rabat’s position on the war in Ukraine and its absence during the vote on a UN resolution . Perceived as an interference in the sovereign choices of Moroccan diplomacy, this tweet sparked heated controversy. The Finnish diplomat had to withdraw it and apologize to the Moroccan people.

Israel has announced Morocco’s participation in a "historic" meeting organized as part of the visit of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken . This diplomatic summit will be held between the United States and the three Arab countries that have normalized their relations with the Hebrew state.