In his speech delivered Thursday, at the opening of the plenary session of the 12th Morocco-Spain high-level meeting, Pedro Sanchez indicated that the two countries have agreed to avoid anything that could offend their “spheres of sovereignty”.
President of the Government Pedro Sánchez has indicated that Spain and Morocco are committed in the framework of the new relationship they have established to avoid anything that could offend the “spheres of sovereignty” of the other, reports Europa Press.
“We have assumed a commitment of mutual respect, whereby in our discourse and in our political practice, we will avoid anything that we know offends the other party, especially as it affects our respective spheres of sovereignty”, he said at the start of the plenary session of the High-Level Meeting (RAN) in which the ministers of the two governments participated.
Pedro Sánchez refers in particular to Sebta and Melilla, the main points of contention between the two countries.
Shortly before, Aziz Akhannouch also gave a speech. “We welcome Spain’s position on our first national cause, which supports the Moroccan proposal for autonomy in the Moroccan Sahara, presented by Morocco in 2007, and considers it to be the most serious, realistic basis and the most credible for the settlement of this artificial conflict”, underlined the head of government.
In the morning, Sánchez held a bilateral meeting with Aziz Akhannouch, at the headquarters of the prime minister. The eleven Spanish ministers who accompanied him met separately with their Moroccan counterparts to finalize more than 20 agreements to be signed during this RAN, “four times more than those signed for the last one in 2015”, Europa Press further underlines.
Before that and “as tradition dictates”, Pedro Sánchez had to go to the mausoleum of Mohammed V to pay homage to him.
