Albares receives Burita in Madrid after the assist of the USA and France to the Moroccan Plan for Sahara | Spain | EUROtoday

The Foreign Ministers of Spain and Morocco, José Manuel Albares and Naser Burita, have met this Thursday in Madrid in a shock assembly that didn’t seem on the general public agenda of the primary. The go to of the Head of the Moroccan diplomacy was introduced abruptly on Wednesday afternoon by way of an announcement from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs by which it was assured that each ministers would have “the opportunity to celebrate the excellent state of bilateral relations and the advances in the application of the road map agreed between Spain and Morocco, as well as deepen the cooperation in mateas such as migration, economic relations and security, among others”; in addition to thanks from Albares “the help provided by Morocco after the Dana disaster.”

The assembly is produced within the context of a reinforcement of the Moroccan place over Sahara after the again of the Trump administration and the French authorities, which have fissured their autonomy plan for the Spanish excolonia by presenting it as the one approach to attain an answer to the battle, discarding the self -determination referendum claimed by the Polisario Front and backed by the United Nations. The Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, already aligned with Rabat’s place within the go to that in March 2022 referred to Mohamed VI, though it was not to this point, since he then described the Moroccan Plan as autonomy as “the most serious, credible and realistic base for the resolution of this difference”; though with out excluding others. That letter allowed to shut the diplomatic disaster that opened in May 2021 and that included the emergence in Ceuta of greater than 10,000 irregular immigrants.

Last Monday, Burita met in Paris together with her French counterpart, Jean-Nöel Barrot. After the assembly, Quai d’Orsay launched an announcement by which he assured that the Moroccan Autonomy Plan “is the only basis for reaching a fair, lasting and negotiated political solution according to the resolutions of the United Nations” of the contentious in regards to the Spanish ex -colonia. They are the identical phrases utilized by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, within the letter that referred to King Mohamed VI on July 30 and that they defined the flip of the French place on Sahara, one step past Spain in its alignment with Rabat. This flip has meant the opening of a diplomatic disaster between France and Algeria, as occurred to Spain.

As Burita stated in statements to the media, the assist of Paris shouldn’t be restricted solely to phrases however is being materialized with info, such because the change of the official French map to incorporate the Sahara within the Moroccan state, the visits of excessive French positions to the excolonia or the subsequent celebration “in the southern regions” of a gathering organized by the exterior ministries of the 2 nations. The official French assertion, in the meantime, contains “France’s commitment to accompany the efforts of Morocco in favor of the economic and social development of these regions for the benefit of local populations.”

On April 8, Burita was obtained in Washington by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who reiterated the assist of the Trump administration to Rabat. Rubio pressured that the United States helps “the proposal of serious, credible and realistic autonomy of Morocco as a basis for a fair and lasting solution of the dispute.” Trump already supported the Moroccan situation of Sahara in December 2020, after dropping the elections to the Democrat Joe Biden, in alternate for the normalization of Moroccan relations with Israel.

This is the primary go to of the Head of Moroccan diplomacy to Madrid since November 2019, when he met together with his then counterpart Josep Borrell. On the opposite, Albares has traveled to Rabat a number of instances after the closing of the diplomatic disaster, the final one in February 2024, accompanying the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.