On the eve of Ibrahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario Front before the Spanish judiciary, Morocco put the points on the letters regarding the roots of the crisis and the future of relations between Rabat and Madrid.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and African Cooperation and Moroccans residing abroad said in a statement on the Moroccan -Spanish crisis: “This Tuesday, June 1, will appear Ghali before the Spanish Supreme Court.Ghali, Ghali, is the basis for the serious crisis that is currently being ravaged with relations between the two neighboring countries..
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs registered that the appearance of Ghali before the court "confirms what Morocco said since the beginning of the crisis: Spain has already smuggled a judicial person who follows its lands surreptitiously and in an illegal way, in order to protect him from judicial follow -up on crimes that were partly committed on Spanish soil.".
The same source added that the appearance of Ibrahim Ghali before the court is an "additional guide showing the true face of the" Polisario "represented by the person of a bloody behavior leader, who practiced serious human rights violations, committed rape and torture crimes and sponsors terrorist acts..
He continued that this appearance "confirms Spain's fixed responsibility;Because the victims of Ghali are, above all, Spaniards, and therefore the interrogation of the accused constitutes an explicit and implicit recognition of the rights of victims and criminal responsibility of this person for the actions he committed;It is also the first time that the Spanish courts have summoned this official and faced his complaints of his victims about serious crimes..
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also explained that “in addition, these are nothing but complaints that some of the victims were able to take out to the public;What about all the victims of children, women and men who have suffered and suffer from the horrors of the 'Polisario'?“.
Morocco rose from its accent towards Spain, and the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that "the roots of the problem in fact are the confidence that has collapsed between the two partners," adding that "the true origins of the crisis are due to the motivations and hostilities of Spain regarding the issue of the Moroccan Sahara, which is a sacred issue for the MoroccansAs a whole.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and African Cooperation and Moroccans residing abroad explained that this crisis is "not related to the arrest of a person or his lack of arrest", and indicated that "the crisis did not begin with the smuggling of the accused to Spanish lands and will not end with his departure from it;It is related to mutual confidence and respect that were tampered with and destroyed. It is a test of the credibility of the partnership between Morocco and Spain..
“If the crisis between Morocco and Spain may not end if the invited person does not appear before the court, then it will also not be resolved to listen to it only.Morocco's expectations exceed this, as the crisis of its origins that we mentioned above requires Spain an explicit clarification of its positions, decisions and choices..
The ministry itself confirmed that “for Morocco, the so -called Ghali reflects the image of the Polisario, as the way in which the Spanish lands entered with a passport and a false identity, on a Algerian presidential plane, reveals a way that does not doubt that this separatist militia turns on itself and the essence of its existence.”.
The ministerial source continued that "in addition to the case of Ghali, this issue revealed the opposition positions and hostile strategies of Spain towards the issue of the Moroccan Sahara, and revealed the collusion of our northern neighbor with the Kingdom's opponents to undermine its territorial integrity.".
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked, in a press statement, “How can Morocco in this context trust in Spain again?How can we guarantee that Spain will not conspire again with the enemies of the Kingdom?Can Morocco really trust that Spain will not act behind its back?How can trust be restored after this grave mistake?What are the reliability guarantees that Morocco has yet?In fact, it comes to asking the basic question: What does Spain really want? ”.
The statement also stated that this crisis also raises "a fundamental question related to harmony and consistency in positions..You cannot fight separation in your country and support it with your neighbor..
The Foreign Ministry added: “In the context of this cohesion and harmony towards the self first and towards its partners secondly;Morocco has never used the separatist tendency, he never played this paper in its international relations, especially with its neighbors, "noting that Morocco's policy" was always clear towards Spain;During the Catalan crisis, Morocco did not choose neutrality..
Here a legitimate question arises: What would be Spain's reaction if a Spanish separatist figure was received in the Moroccan Royal Palace?How will Spain's reaction be if this character is publicly received and officially by its strategic ally, its important commercial partner, and the closest neighbor to the south? ”.
"Our memory should not be short: in 2012, for example, when a Catalan economic delegation was concerned with visiting Morocco, this visit program was modified at the request of the Spanish government, so that this delegation was not received by officials fromA high level, and the representative of the Spanish embassy in Rabat was present during all the periods of the talks that the delegation was holding with the Moroccan side..
The “Foreign Ministry” indicated that in 2017, “Morocco remained in harmony with itself and its principles, and he refused to request a reception and meeting one of the great separatist leaders in the Catalan movement,” adding that “Morocco has the right to expect Spain less than what it was treated, this is the principleThe real partnership, the principle of reciprocity is also a established principle in international relations..
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that “of course there are natural difficulties related to neighborhood and the inevitability of geography, including periodic immigration crises, but that should never forget that solidarity is partnership, good neighborhood and friendship is related to confidence and credibility.”.
Morocco mentioned the closures of this solidarity through, for example, that in 2002, during the drowning of an oil tanker, its regional waters opened to 64 fishing ships belonging to the Galicia region, at a time when the fishing agreements had not yet signed, and it increased that in 2008, when Spain was inIn the midst of an economic crisis, with open arms, based on the duty of partnership and good neighborhood, granting exceptions to businessmen and indicating the confirmation of Spanish workers who resorted to the Kingdom in the context of the economic crisis at the time..
In the midst of the Catalan crisis, Spain has always been able to rely on Morocco, which defended and without reservation, its national sovereignty and regional safety, through the procedures (banning the entry of Catalan separatists into Morocco, and prohibiting any contact between the Moroccan consulate in Barcelona and the separatist Catalan movement) and positionsTake (clear and strong support statements).
The “Foreign Ministry” stressed that the spirit of “solidarity itself has always prevailed in security cooperation and combating illegal immigration.Thus, since 2017, cooperation in the field of immigration enabled more than 14,000 irregular migration attempts, dismantling 5,000 smuggling networks since 2017, and preventing countless attempts to attack..
The ministry stated that cooperation in combating terrorism "enabled the dismantling of several cells with its extensions in Morocco and Spain and the neutralization of 82 terrorist acts;Added to this is the decisive contribution of the Kingdom to the investigations conducted after the bloody attacks in Madrid in March 2004.This cooperation in combating drug trafficking also resulted in a successful and useful exchange of about twenty cases related to international drug trafficking..
“How can after all this talk seriously about the threats and extortion in relation to the statement of His Majesty’s Ambassador in Madrid?The truth is that the matter was not a threat or blackmail, because the legal defense of positions cannot be blackmail and does not equate it in any way. ”The Moroccan Foreign Ministry explains..
The same source said that Morocco distinguishes between the bonds of friendship with the Spanish people and the hostility that some political circles have.
“In this dangerous Moroccan -Spanish crisis, Morocco is always distinguished and clearly distinguished between the Spanish people and some of the distant political leaders who appreciate friendship with Morocco and good neighborhood, on the one hand, and a group of politicians, governments, media professionals and some collective actors, who strive to exploit the issue of the Moroccan Sahara and harmIn the interests of the Kingdom;They are the people themselves reassuring for their outdated dogmatic summaries, and who continue to look at Morocco from a transcendent perspective that opens from the legacies of the aforementioned colonial past..
The press statement stressed that Morocco "has no problem with the Spanish people and its citizens, economic workers in it, cultural actors, and tourists, who are warmly welcomed as friends and neighbors.Even some Spanish citizens work in the Moroccan royal palace long before the birth of His Majesty, the owners of the Royal Highness, the princes and princesses, and this means in reality that Morocco clings to the ties between Morocco and Spain and does not give up the document and strength of these human ties..
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs's statement concluded that Morocco will remain "related to natural and authentic friendship relations," calling for the publication of this statement completely to enlighten Spanish public opinion and provide facts, data and numbers to it.
