MADRID, 10 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of Morocco has assured that the application of the ‘road map’ agreed with Spain for the improvement of bilateral relations is advancing “at a very satisfactory pace”, in the midst of growing tensions with Algeria, which on Wednesday suspended the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighborhood and Cooperation that governs relations with Spain since 2002.
The spokesman for the Moroccan Executive, Mustafá Baitas, has stressed that “the issues are treated in order of priority” and has added that “the vision (on the process) will be more exhaustive once the established deadlines expire”, according to the agency. Moroccan state news agency, MAP.
The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, and King Mohamed VI of Morocco agreed in April on a joint declaration at the end of a meeting in Rabat stating that “the Moroccan autonomy initiative, presented in 2007, as the most serious, realistic and credible to resolve this dispute”.
Likewise, both agreed that “issues of common interest will be dealt with in a spirit of trust, through agreement, without resorting to unilateral acts or faits accomplis”, thus betting on leaving behind the crisis caused, among other things, by the reception in Spain of the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, and the massive entry of immigrants in Ceuta registered a month later.
This change of position in Madrid’s politics has caused the discomfort of the Polisario Front and Algeria, which on Wednesday accused Morocco of participating in a “dirty war” against neighboring countries, Spain among them, in which it would use the migratory pressure and Pegasus espionage software, taking for granted that it is the Alaouite kingdom that is behind the attacks on mobile phones of high-ranking Spanish officials.
