Morocco wants relations with Spain to be marked by clarity, mutual trust and transparency
Morocco-Spain, Politics, 11/2/2001

Morocco is keen on seeing its relations with Spain to be marked by clarity, mutual trust, equality and transparency in stands and in practice, said Moroccan secretary of state for foreign affairs and cooperation, Taieb Fassi Fihri.

"We are eager to have neighborliness relations with Spain and to consolidate the strategic cooperation between the two countries, and we welcome any initiative in this regard, but we are likewise eager to see our relations with Spain marked by clarity, mutual trust, equality and transparency in stands and in practice," said Fassi Fihri in a report presented Thursday to the cabinet council meeting, held under the chairmanship of Premier Abderrahmane Youssoufi.

Morocco's decision to call back its ambassador to Madrid for consultation was justified by the accumulation of a number of attitudes and stands on the part of Spain, concerning mainly our national cause, Fassi Fihri said.

We have always noted a kind of ambiguity and contradiction (in Spain's stand) and this accumulation also concerns the way Spain has constantly behaved vis-a-vis Morocco, a behavior that has not always been based on equality and on the spirit of cooperation and neighborliness, but rather on a condescending vision and on decisions made unilaterally.

Fassi Fihri recalled that after the suspension of negotiations on fisheries, Spanish authorities uttered threats that were effectively carried out when a number of cooperation programs were frozen and several meetings, that were part of cooperation mechanisms, were cancelled.

The Moroccan official went on that this accumulation also included a kind of unbalance in handling Moroccan issues. We have noted and continue to note a kind of silence and complicity of the part of official milieus whenever unofficial sides circulated allegations and harmed Morocco's inalienable rights.

For all these reasons, he said, Morocco deemed it necessary to take a firm, clear-cut and solemn stand and today calls on Spain to thoroughly think over its relations with Morocco, in order to reconsider its attitudes and stands and consequently serve better our common perspectives.

Morocco officially announced last Sunday that it has called back its ambassador to Madrid for consultation, in view of a number of Spanish attitudes and stands concerning Morocco.

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