The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, spoke at the inaugural session of the Morocco-Spain High-Level Meeting, in which he stressed the need for both countries not to do anything that offends “their spheres over sovereignty”, alluding to the recent problems on the borders of Ceuta and Melilla.
“We have assumed a commitment to mutual respect, whereby in our speech and in our political practice we will avoid everything that we know offends the other party, especially, as regards our respective spheres of sovereignty“, stressed the President of the Government.
An intervention that has come in the midst of the shock caused by the non-reception of Mohamed VI in audience with Sánchez. The crucial week of the celebration of the High Level Meeting (RAN), With everything prepared to seal a lasting alliance, which has only been possible after the historic turn of Spain over the Sahara, the spark that there was no meeting between the head of the Executive and the Moroccan king generated a new political row with the PP and forced to Moncloa to give explanations to the media. And all this, despite the fact that the Moroccan Royal House and the Spanish Executive made two separate communications public in which they reported that Sánchez and Mohamed VI had spoken by phone and the monarch had invited him to a new visit “soon”.
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The interview between the two, within the framework of the RAN, was not confirmed and Moncloa always remarked that it was a meeting between governments. But, in the conversations with the media the previous days, its celebration was never ruled out. As if one wanted to let this possibility float. It was this expectation and the history of disagreements that Spain accumulates with Morocco that has ignited the spark of a controversy, which has almost tarnished the RAN.
The Foreign Minister himself, José Manuel Albares, was forced to offer clarifications publicly and reveal that the phone call was “agreed days ago”which denotes, he defended, the “personal involvement” of the king in the development of the RAN.