The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchez, will make an official institutional visit to Ceuta and Melilla Wednesday, March 23, according to sources who spoke to Spanish agency EFE.
Sanchez will be accompanied by the presidents of both enclaved cities, after the “beginning of a new stage in the relationship with Morocco following the change in the Government’s position on Western Sahara,” said the EFE report.
The “new partnership” now linking Morocco and Spain came after Sanchez addressed King Mohammed VI, and shifted the Iberian country’s historic neutrality on the Western Sahara issue, to fully supporting Morocco’s autonomy plan proposal.
The head of the Spanish executive is currently in Brussels meeting with the European Commission, after being received by French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday.
Sanchez also met with Belgium’s prime minister Alexander De Croo, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel, president of the European Council, ahead of the upcoming EU summit.
Meanwhile, members of the Spanish congress are calling for further “clarifications” from the president, who according to political officials, excluded government majority parties from Spain’s new shift in foreign policy.
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