The Spanish section of Amnesty International (AI) invited Wednesday the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchez, to address the issue of respect for human rights during his trip to Morocco scheduled for this Thursday .
Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares assured this Wednesday, on the eve of his departure to Morocco alongside President Pedro Sanchez, that Spain’s interests, and particularly those of the Canary Islands, "will always be defended" against Morocco.
The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchez, will be in Morocco this Thursday where he will have a tête-à-tête with Mohammed VI. The migration issue, the territorial integrity of Spain (Ceuta and Melilla in particular), the reopening of borders, the resumption of Operation Marhaba and many other subjects, will be on the agenda of the exchanges.
The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchez, is expected to fly to Morocco this Thursday for a two-day working visit.
The federal spokesperson for Izquierda Unida (IU), Sira Rego, calls on the PSOE to seize the "golden opportunity" offered to it by Congress to return to "common sense" and support the self-determination referendum in the Sahara.
Polisario Front leader Brahim Ghali reacts after Spain’s decision to support Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara. He condemns the "betrayal" of Pedro Sanchez and insists on the need to go to a self-determination referendum to "liberate the Sahrawi people".
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.
For a few months, contacts between the United States and Spain on the one hand and Morocco on the other hand have intensified; which suggests that the Moroccan authorities have acted in the shadows for the change in Spain’s position on the Sahara.
Diplomat and former director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), Jorge Dezcallar, argues that Morocco "will never abandon" its claims on Ceuta and Melilla, despite Spain’s support for the Sahara autonomy plan .
The Russian ambassador to Algeria, Igor Belyaev, deplored the abrupt change in Spain’s position on the Sahara, recalling that it has a "historical responsibility" towards the Sahrawi people, that of completing the decolonization process.
The former Spanish Prime Minister, Felipe González, supported his country’s new position on the Sahara, considering the Moroccan autonomy initiative as "the best solution" to definitively settle the regional dispute.
The spokesperson for the PSOE parliamentary group, Hector Gomez, assured that his party will seek to negotiate an agreement with the opposition before the presentation to Congress, on Tuesday, of the bill by Podemos, ERC and Bildu on the self-determination of the Sahara.