The diplomatic crisis between Rabat and Madrid seems to have already had a negative impact on Spain. The United States and Morocco , as well as other countries, are busy preparing for African Lion 2021, scheduled for June 7-18 without the northern neighbor.
He was firm and objective. Former Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Garcia-Margallo has sharply challenged the position currently adopted by Spanish leaders on the Sahara issue. Invited Tuesday evening on a Spanish radio station, he indicated that his successor is on the wrong track and must revise his copy.
The "Laâyouneconnect" platform, financed by the government of the United States of America, will be launched very soon with the aim of boosting investment and territorial marketing in the Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra region by seizing the opportunities offered in particular by Dakhla.
Europe "will not be intimidated by anyone" on the migration issue. A statement made on Wednesday by the Vice-President of the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas, commenting on the massive influx of migrants from the small Spanish enclave of Ceuta coming from Morocco.
The Biden administration has published the text of the tripartite declaration signed on December 22 between Morocco, the United States and Israel on the State Department’s website. Is the US recognition of the kingdom’s sovereignty over the Sahara being maintained?
The Royal Armed Forces (FAR) destroyed, this Monday, May 17, 2021, a Polisario vehicle in the Mahbès sub-sector. A response to a provocation from the East of the defense wall in the Sahara.
The network of Belgian schools in Morocco apologized after the use in the elementary section of mathematics textbooks containing a map of the kingdom without the Sahara.
Alongside the various diplomatic statements, the Istiqlal party has strongly criticized the decision of Spain to host the leader of the separatists, Brahim Ghali, with the Spanish Popular Party. In a letter addressed to Pablo Casado, the Moroccan political formation has lambasted this stance of the Spanish authorities which it considers "hostile and unfriendly" towards Morocco.
Morocco, which has been steadily strengthening and modernizing its army for years, with the support of the United States, which has moreover recognized its sovereignty over the Sahara, would constitute a threat to Spain.
Tensions between Morocco and Algeria are far from subsiding. Salah Goudjil, President of the Algerian Senate, said that the actions of the kingdom "are known, and this, from the day after independence, in particular through its expansionist tendencies" and that normalization with Israel is "a scarecrow".
The crisis is escalating between Morocco and Germany. The German government has reacted to the recall of the Moroccan ambassador to Berlin.
While voices are rising to reassure that the Biden administration will not call into question the decree recognizing American sovereignty over the Sahara issued by Donald Trump, a State Department spokesman said that "no decision has been made" so far.