The Diplomat
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, will travel to Rabat this week, where he plans to meet his Moroccan counterpart, Naser Burita, on Thursday. At the meeting, the two ministers are expected to address pending bilateral issues such as the establishment of customs at Morocco’s borders with Ceuta and Melilla.
This was one of the points to be negotiated that King Mohammed VI and the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, agreed on during their meeting following Madrid’s support for the autonomy proposal for Western Sahara presented by Morocco to the UN.
Other points of the roadmap, such as control of Western Saharan airspace and the delimitation of territorial waters with the Canary Islands, are still under negotiation.
In addition to Morocco, Albares could extend his trip to Mauritania and Senegal, although his agenda has not yet been finalised.
At the last bilateral Spanish-Moroccan summit, held in Rabat last February, the two governments signed 19 memorandums of understanding relating to educational and business cooperation, investment promotion, water, Spanish language teaching, tourism and ‘green cooperation’, among others.
