Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita maintained Morocco’s ‘responsible pushback’ of the hundreds of migrants who attempted to cross to the Melilla border on July 24, an incident that’s comes to be one of the worst tragedies of border control in the bustling Spanish-Morocco border.
“What happened in July wasn’t a normal event in its origin and in its proceedings,” Bourita said during a press conference on the sidelines of the 7th regional forum of the Union for the Mediterranean in Barcelona.
“It was new for all of us, because it was violent and because of the origin of those categories. For Morocco it was clear that it was not a spontaneous movement, it was something very violent, it was something very new. We tried to deal with it in a resposible way and we tried also not to give any incentive to the networks of human trafficking,” he said.
Regarding the road map between the two countries, the head of Moroccan diplomacy praised “the positive spirit of cooperation that covered all fields.”
“Whether it is related to migration, the economy, politics, culture or security, there is continuous work to improve joint relations in the near future,” assured Bourita.
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