Eduardo González
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Senegal, Tall Sall, went to Madrid yesterday to discuss with the Spanish Government the bilateral collaboration on circular migration, with a special emphasis on the training of young people.
Sall was received in Madrid by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, with whom she discussed the reinforcement of “bilateral cooperation on migration issues”, as reported by the Ministry itself on its official Twitter account.
She also met with the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá. During the meeting, which was also attended by the Senegalese ambassador to Spain, Mariame Sy, the minister had the opportunity to detail the latest reforms approved by Congress to modernize the migration model, with changes in the regulations of the Immigration Law to promote regular, orderly and safe migration. The Senegalese minister valued these measures and both teams pledged to “work together to deepen these ways of circular and stable migration, with a special emphasis on training,” as reported by the Ministry in a press release.
Tall Sall’s day in Madrid concluded with a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, at the end of which both offered an institutional statement in which the Spanish minister highlighted the “wide range of interests shared” by the two countries in the political fields (including the “annual consultations, to be held this year here in Madrid”), economic (“with the presence of our companies in Senegal, such as very recently the hotel company Riu”) or cultural, with special attention to the “extraordinary importance of the Cervantes Institute center in Dakar”, inaugurated in December 2021 by the Queen.
Likewise, Albares stressed “the importance that both countries give to the migration issue” and their support for “legal, regular and orderly migration” and, in this sense, he highlighted Sall’s meeting with Escrivá to “continue exploring opportunities for circular migration, so welcome in Spain, and new projects in this area”. The so-called “circular migration”, which was already addressed by both of them last July during the visit of José Manuel Albares to Dakar, is a type of bilateral collaboration that allows the regulation of labor migration flows between two States through the selection of workers at source and the regulation of working conditions and social rights of workers.
In this regard, Minister Sall stated yesterday, in her appearance with Albares, the importance of circular migration, “which benefits Spain and even more Senegal and its young people”, and stressed the need to promote the training of young Senegalese in order to give them “the possibility of finding a trade here”. “Spain is playing a preponderant role in cooperation and we in Senegal are going to take advantage of this opportunity to establish these channels of legal, safe and orderly migration in order to be able to fight illegal migration,” she added.
