Morocco and Spain conduct new customs tests in Ceuta, Melilla crossings

Morocco and Spain conduct new customs tests in Ceuta, Melilla crossings
AFP
Sunday 26 February 2023 - 13:13

“Spain and Morocco are carrying out new crossings of goods through Ceuta and Melilla customs,” announced a Spanish Foreign Ministry department in a statement issued Friday evening.

“With these new operations, we move forward in accordance with the roadmap that provides for a complete, gradual and progressive normalization, to which both countries are committed to promote trade and to address the atypical trade that was recorded at these border crossings,” said the same source.

“The new commercial shipments have provided solutions to many of the technical difficulties detected during the pilot test on January 27.”

The February 24 tests allow the Sanchez government to provide answers to criticisms of the opposition.

“There is a timetable for continuing to make experimental steps,” replied the head of diplomacy to Parliament last week.

The Joint Declaration issued at the end of the 12th Moroccan-Spanish High Level Meeting reiterated the commitment of both parties to continue to “move in an orderly manner towards full normalization of the movement of people and goods, including appropriate arrangements for customs control and people at land and sea.

They take into account the findings of the January 27 pilot test, and they will continue this series of tests on the agreed schedule to overcome all constraints.

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