Spanish official lauds Morocco’s exemplary immigration policy

Barcelona  –  Spanish secretary of state for foreign affairs Ignacio Ybanez lauded, on Friday in Barcelona (north eastern Spain), the exemplary immigration policy adopted by Morocco since 2013.

Speaking at a meeting by the committee on the promotion of life quality, culture and society’s exchanges held at the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM)’s headquarters, the Spanish official underlined that Morocco is the first non Mediterranean European country which understood the importance of changes occurring in the field of immigration, describing this policy as exemplary.

 Ybanez noted that Morocco has adopted a new policy which takes account of the new challenges of immigration regarding the respect of human rights of immigrants and refugees, and the need to promote regional cooperation to counter this phenomenon.

 In addition to its positive impact on immigrants in Morocco, this policy also enabled to achieve a major change in the management of immigration inflow in the Kingdom which has been, until recently, a country of immigration outflow, said the Spanish official.