The Popular Party (PP) demands the appearance of Pedro Sánchez in Congress to explain the basis of the decision to support the autonomy plan for the Sahara proposed by Morocco.
The Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños, assured on Saturday that Spain’s support for Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara will strengthen police cooperation between the two countries in the fight against illegal immigration.
After a year of diplomatic rift, Morocco and Spain have just normalized their relations. Several Spanish officials will make "soon" official visits to the kingdom.
US Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman reiterated the United States’ support for the autonomy plan proposed by Morocco for a lasting resolution of the Sahara conflict.
Last Friday at the UN podium, France returned to the Sahara issue, reiterating its support and backing for the autonomy plan proposed by Morocco . For it, it is a "serious and credible" basis capable of helping to find a political solution to the Sahara issue.
During the plenary session of the 76th UN General Assembly in New York, Abdallah Y. Al-Mouallimi, Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations, reiterated his country’s support for Morocco’s efforts to find a realistic political solution to the Moroccan Sahara issue.
The Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, denounced on Wednesday the attitude of the Spanish government aimed at "Europeanizing an exclusively bilateral crisis" that persists between Morocco and Spain. For the minister, this is a flight of responsibility on the part of Madrid.
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 overheated relations between Madrid and Rabat will allow, in an irreversible way, to get Morocco out of the clichés under which it appears in the eyes of Spain and even of Europe as a whole. This is the opinion of the French daily Le Monde which analyzes the migration issue from different diplomatic and geopolitical angles.
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.
Since March 2019, the negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario regarding the Sahara have stalled. A delay that is too long in the eyes of American diplomacy, which is demanding that UN Secretary-General António Guterres appoint a new envoy to resume the discussions.
In a letter addressed to the current President of the United States, Joe Biden, 250 international personalities from 25 countries have welcomed the American decision to recognize Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. The US President is also invited to support the Moroccan autonomy initiative as the only way to end this long-standing conflict.