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Rabat – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday renewed his country’s endorsement of Morocco’s Autonomy Plan during a meeting with King Mohamed VI.
Sanchez’s visit to Morocco came in response to King Mohammed VI’s invitation to the Spanish PM during a phone conversation on March 31.
Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Manuel Albares and his Moroccan counterpart attended the royal audience at the Royal Palace in Rabat.
The visit to Morocco is part of a new phase of partnership Morocco and Spain seek to open to end almost a year of an unprecedented crisis.
In March, Spain voiced its official endorsement of Morocco’s Autonomy Plan as the most serious and credible approach toward finding a lasting and mutually acceptable political solution to end the dispute over Western Sahara.
Sanchez made the announcement in a letter he addressed to the King of Morocco.
The letter served as an opportunity for the Spanish Government to announce a new phase in the bilateral ties between the two kingdoms, based on transparency and mutual respect.
“This new dynamic is an echo of the call of his majesty the King during the speech of August 20, 2021,” the royal cabinet said on Thursday. During this speech the monarch expressed that there is hope to see bilateral ties between the two countries improving.
During the audience, King Mohammed VI and Sanchew reiterated Rabat and Madrid’s desire to open a new phase in relations between the two countries, based on mutual respect, mutual trust, permanent consultation and frank and loyalty.
The King of Morocco and Sanchez agreed to “implement concrete actions within the framework of a roadmap covering all areas of the partnership, integrating all issues of common interest.”
Both countries agreed to review the various aspects of common interest in their political, economic, security and cultural cooperation.
In addition to Bourita, King’s advisor Fouad Ali El Himma, and Moroccan ambassador to Spain Karima Benyaish also attended the meeting.
The Spanish ambassador in Rabat, Ricardo Diez-Hochleitner, also took part in the royal audience.
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