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Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez lauded the efforts made by Moroccan and Spanish security forces to stop a violent storming of Melilla fence, a Spanish occupied enclave in Northern Morocco. Early on Friday June 24, more than 2000 Sub-Saharan migrants marched violently with sticks, acid, bladed weapons and stones attacking Moroccan security forces as they […]
The southern city of Dakhla hosted Tuesday the first Moroccan-Spanish investment forum to be held in the region to explore opportunities for the development of economic and trade cooperation between the two countries. The forum, organized by the Council of the region of Dakhla Oued Eddahab, in partnership with the Ministry of Industry and Trade, […]
Anger is still boiling up inside the Algerian regime, irked by the firm support voiced by Spanish government to the autonomy plan offered by Morocco for the Sahara under its sovereignty. The resentment continues building up pushing the ruling military junta to take irrational decisions undermining the EU-Algeria Association Agreement. Among the latest vindictive measures […]
Security and intelligence cooperation between Morocco and Spain were discussed during the working visit the Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance, Abdellatif Hammouchi, paid to Madrid June 16 and 17. Hammouchi, who was leading a delegation made up of directors and executives of the central services of the General Directorate for Territorial Surveillance […]
Spanish Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has described Morocco as a “strategic and reliable neighbor”, underlining the “transversal” dimension of cooperation between the two countries. “Morocco is an absolutely strategic, reliable neighbor, with which we share common interests,” Grande-Marlaska told reporters on Friday after visiting the construction works of the new headquarters of the […]
The exemplary Moroccan-Spanish cooperation in matters of migration and security, including the fight against terrorism and transnational crime, was highlighted at a working meeting that gathered this Wednesday in Madrid the two countries’ Interior Ministers Abdelouafi Laftit and Fernando Grande-Marlaska. The two officials held in-depth discussions on topics of common interest, and recalled on the […]
The Spanish government’s support to Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara is a “good decision for Spain and for the whole Mediterranean region”, stressed Spanish Defense Minister María Margarita Robles on Tuesday. By supporting autonomy as “the most serious, realistic and credible basis” for resolving this dispute, the government “has taken the best decision for […]
The support of the Spanish government for the Moroccan autonomy initiative for the Sahara constitutes a “coherent and respectful position of international law”, affirmed, on Monday, the Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign and Global Affairs, Angeles Moreno Bau. By supporting autonomy as being “the most serious, realistic and credible basis” for the resolution of […]
Morocco has repeatedly said that Algeria is the genuine party to the Sahara conflict and that no solution can be found without its active participation. Now, the erratic decisions made by Algeria against Spain came to vindicate Morocco and showed the real face of the Algerian regime in stoking separatism and instability in North Africa. […]
After worsening ties with almost all of its immediate north African neighbors, Algeria has entrenched its self-inflicted diplomatic and economic isolation by hostile moves against Spain, triggering a firm reaction from the EU. Algeria has asked its bank to withhold processing all commercial transactions with Spain the same day it has suspended a friendship and […]