Rabat responde a Sánchez: la crisis bilateral "no está ligada" a migración

The bilateral crisis between Morocco and Spain "is not linked to the migration issue," the Moroccan Foreign Ministry said today in a statement read in response to the previous words of the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

Sanchez had previously said at a press conference that "it is not inadmissible for a government to say that borders are attacked, that they are opened for ten thousand to enter a neighboring country, because of disagreements and discrepancies in foreign policy", after being asked about a statement from the Moroccan Foreign Ministry on Monday morning.

"None of the latest statements by Moroccan diplomatic officials evoke in any way the migratory question - the ministry clarified, in a tone visibly more conciliatory than in previous communiqués -; we wonder if the President of the Spanish Government has read the various statements on this crisis and in particular today's statement."

The ministry had said this morning that the "serious crisis" with Spain would not be resolved by the entry or exit of the Saharawi leader Brahim Ghali from Spanish territory, nor by his appearance tomorrow before the courts, where he is being prosecuted in two different cases opened by the judge of the Audiencia Nacional Santiago Pedraz. 

In that statement, it specified that what Morocco expects from Madrid is "an unambiguous clarification of its choices, its decisions and its positions" on the question of the Sahara, and asked Spain to treat the question of the Sahara in the same way as Morocco did with the Catalan question: without opting for neutrality and taking the side of the territorial integrity of its neighbor.