Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans residing abroad, confirmed that Morocco is still waiting for a "satisfactory and convincing response" from the Spanish government regarding its decision to authorize Ibrahim Ghali, who is followed up by the Spanish justice against the background of genocide and terrorism, to enter its soil.
In an interview with Spanish news agency EFE, today, Saturday, Bourita said that Morocco has not yet received answers from Madrid to the questions it raised in a communiqué published last Sunday.
The minister said, “Why did the Spanish authorities consider that there is no need to inform Morocco? Why did they prefer coordination with Morocco’s opponents? Is it normal that we know about this from the press?” He asked whether Spain “wants to sacrifice bilateral relations” due to a situation Called Ibrahim Ghaly.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans residing abroad considered that this issue “is a test of the credibility and sincerity of our relationship, and whether it is just a slogan,” noting that Morocco has always supported Spain in the face of separatism in Catalonia.
Bourita added: “When Spain faced separatism, Morocco was very clear and at the highest level, as it refused any contact or interaction with them and our partners were informed. When the (Catalans) asked us to receive them at the ministry, we asked for the presence of someone from the Spanish embassy. ”
The same government official stressed that "with the partners there are no maneuvers or stabbing in the back on a key issue for Morocco," adding that before going one step forward in bilateral relations, "matters must first be clarified."
Nasser Bourita asserted that the case of Ibrahim Ghali reflects the "double Polisario"; While its leaders are given the right to a private plane and a new identity, the detained residents of Tindouf do not even have masks or sterilizers, while the Covid-19 epidemic sweeps them under sheer indifference.
The minister asked, saying that Ibrahim Ghali “is a rapist imprinted with slavery, torture, war crimes, child recruitment and genocide, and Spain knows all of this before anyone else.” Is she willing to sacrifice her relationship with Morocco for the sake of this person?
Speaking about the complaints submitted by the victims of the so-called Ibrahim Ghali, especially the Sahrawi Association for the Defense of Human Rights and the Canarian Association of Victims of Terrorism, the Minister asked: “Where is the Spanish justice in all of this? Did no judge decide that it is necessary to act on these complaints?” .
Regarding the arguments that Spain was the occupying power in southern Morocco, the Moroccan minister recorded that the matter relates to a "pretext that no longer exists," explaining that Spain also colonized lands in northern Morocco, and yet it is "acting normally."
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans residing abroad stressed, in the dialogue singled out by the Spanish News Agency (EFE), that "we cannot remain prisoners of the Spanish past."
Bourita said that Morocco and Spain already share a "comprehensive partnership: political, economic, commercial, humanitarian and security", and here comes the issue of immigration, adding that it should not be thought "a selective relationship: whenever it comes to conspiring with Algeria and the" Polisario ", Morocco leaves Spanish radar screen; But when we talk about immigration or terrorism, we come back to be important again. ”
The same government official reiterated, once again, that Morocco refuses to be "gendarmes" of the European Union with regard to immigration issues.
He said, "This issue needs to be addressed holistically, not just financial: we must be partners in the vision and in formulating strategies, not just in implementing them for a sum of money."
The minister expressed his regret that migration issues in Europe depend on policy stakes: “political polls, pressures and election deadlines, which lead Europeans to short-term considerations,” calling for “not to distort the phenomenon of immigration.”
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