US ambassador in Madrid denied that her country was involved in deliberations with Spain regarding the shift in the Iberian country’s position on Western Sahara, she told Spanish La Vanguardia newspaper in an interview.
She said the shift resulted from a “special decision” taken by each country separately.
“We did not push Spain to change its position on Morocco, but it made its own decision,” Julissa Renoso, the first woman to hold the position of US ambassador to Spain, said in the interview.
The Diplomat refrained from comments on the recent migration crisis between Spain and Morocco, and responded to the question of whether ” Morocco used migration as a tool for political and diplomatic pressure” with “I don’t know… I don’t have all the details to say on the basis of which Morocco took this or that decision.”
“It’s very important to have a smooth dialogue with the neighbor on the other side of the border… I say that because that is what we experienced with Mexico, but I cannot comment on Morocco,” Reynoso said.
In March, Spain announced a new position supporting Morocco’s Autonomy Plan for Western Sahara after it had for years adhered to a position of negative neutrality.
It is expected that the UN Security Council will discuss on the twentieth of April the Moroccan Sahara file in light of international developments that support Morocco’s position on this conflict, according to what was announced in the council’s monthly program.
The United Nations Security Council will meet on 20 April to discuss the Western Sahara conflict, where the personal envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura will make a presentation.
Staffan de Mistura is expected to outline the conclusions of his first tour in the region, which occurred last January, in addition to his various meetings with international actors involved in the Western Sahara conflict, according to the United Nations Security Council.
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