Spain and Morocco celebrate a business forum prior to the XIII bilateral summit

Spain and Morocco held a bilateral business forum in Madrid this Wednesday, preceding the High-Level Meeting between the two countries that will be chaired on Thursday at the Palacio de la Moncloa by the head of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, and his Moroccan counterpart, Aziz Ajanuch. This is the XIII Spain-Morocco summit, and this time it was Spain's turn to organize it after the last one took place in Rabat in February 2023. No press conference or statement is planned by the two heads of government at the end of this meeting, in which bilateral relations will be reviewed, which the Pedro Sánchez government assures have never been better. This is helped by the support made public in 2022 by the Government for the proposal of autonomy for Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty presented by Morocco in 2007 to the UN, a change in the position that Spain had previously held on this issue. The Polisario Front, which leads the national struggle for independence in Western ...