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Madrid vows to strengthen dialogue, cooperation with Morocco under its Foreign Action Strategy

Spain’s Foreign Action Strategy for 2021/2024 underlines the relevance of strengthening dialogue and cooperation with partner countries like Morocco. This Strategy, presented to the Spanish Council of Ministers on Tuesday by Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya, underlines the need and the relevance of moving forward in the consolidation of dialogue with the countries of the […]

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Spain overreacted to Head of the Government’s remarks on Ceuta & Melilla, analysts say

The recent remarks made by Head of the Government Saad Eddine El Othmani who said that Ceuta and Melilla, the two Spanish-occupied cities, are next in Morocco’s process to retrieve its territorial integrity, have triggered a reaction on the part of the Spanish Government that is deemed by analysts as inappropriate.   El Otmani told […]

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Scores of Algerians died last month in Mediterranean trying to reach Spain

Some 53 young Algerians perished or went uncounted for last month while trying to reach Spanish Baleare Islands, TSA reports citing Spanish media El Diario de Murcia. Algeria has become a major departing point for migrants wishing to reach Europe via Spain, the Spanish media said citing Maria Angeles Colsa, member of CIPIMD, a Spanish […]

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Solution to Sahara issue must be sought within the framework of the possible, Basque Party tells polisario

spokesperson of the Basque Nationalist Party at the Spanish Congress of Deputies Aitor Esteban underlined Wednesday that the solution to the Sahara issue must be sought within the framework of the possible. The Polisario must understand “what is possible and what is impossible” to reach a solution to the Sahara issue, said Aitor Esteban during […]

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Morocco, Key player in building new international order – Spanish journalist

The founder and honorary president of the Spanish daily “El Pais”, Juan Luis Cebrian, has highlighted Morocco’s “key” role in building the new international order.   “Morocco is a key country in building the new international order and in serving the interests of our country and its citizens, regardless of the ideology they practice and […]

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Spain defends again UN centrality in settlement of Sahara issue

Spain has defended again the “central role” of the United Nations in settling the Moroccan Sahara issue.   “The central role in the political settlement of the Sahara issue belongs to the UN,” said Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Arancha Gonzalez Laya.   “In this regard, we always support the efforts of the Secretary General […]

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Illegal Migration: Over 5,000 Moroccans expelled from Spain in three years

Some 5,178 Moroccans had been flashed out by Spanish authorities over the past three years for illegal migration, reports say citing the Spanish police.   A total of 12,912 foreigners living illegally on the territory of the European country had been expelled ulsed over the past three years. Moroccans, according to the Spanish police, represent […]

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Moroccan Diaspora, Jews of Moroccan origin support Morocco’s intervention in Guerguarat

After the global outpouring of solidarity and support to Morocco’s territorial integrity and action against the polisario mercenaries’ obstruction of the Guerguarat crossing point, the Moroccan diaspora in several countries as well as Jews of Moroccan origin have voiced their strong backing to Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara and its actions at Guerguarat to ensure […]

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Spanish FM reiterates Spain’s support for a political, Just solution to Sahara issue

Just a couple of days after she reiterated Spain’s official, clear, and unwavering standpoint on the Sahara issue which is based on full support for the UN process, the Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya affirmed again that Madrid advocates a “political and just” solution to the Sahara issue on the basis of UN parameters. […]

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Spain concerned about increasing enlistment of Sahrawis from Tindouf in ISIS ranks

Spain has sounded the alarm over the steady enlistment of Sahrawis from the Tindouf camps, Algeria, into the ranks of the Islamic state group, ISIS. Fidel Sendagorta, Head of the European country’s foreign policy and security at the foreign ministry, has warned the Spanish Interior Ministry, the US embassy and other missions in Madrid about […]