{"id":11866,"date":"2018-10-29T16:26:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T15:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/?p=11866"},"modified":"2018-11-08T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T15:27:18","slug":"melilla-borders-moroccan-spanish-working-groups-never-met-reveals-borrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/melilla-borders-moroccan-spanish-working-groups-never-met-reveals-borrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Melilla borders : Moroccan-Spanish working groups never met, reveals Borrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>29.10.2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yabiladi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On September the 13th in Rabat, and after the Morocco\u2019s Director General of the Customs Administration met with his Spanish counterpart, the two parties agreed to create a \u00abjoint working group\u00bb to examine the closure of borders separating Melilla and northern Morocco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six weeks later, the joint working group never met, said Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell during a press briefing held Saturday, 28th of October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00abYou know, a month is not enough to act quickly\u00bb on some problems, said the Spanish Minister as reported by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/politica\/2018\/10\/28\/actualidad\/1540731898_339701.html\"><b>El Pais<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said that the Pedro Sanchez government is putting pressure \u00abon Morocco to have a working group\u00bb. But \u00abthis group will meet\u00bb soon, he announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On August the 1st, 2018, Morocco decided to close its commercial borders with Melilla. The decision was highly criticized in the enclave, especially by entrepreneurs and businessmen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Thursday, August 30, 2018, the government&rsquo;s Spokesperson, Mustapha El Khalfi, said that the measure was a decision of \u00absovereignty\u00bb taken to \u00abdevelop the activity of the new port of Nador\u00bb, in Northeastern Morocco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29.10.2018 Yabiladi On September the 13th in Rabat, and after the Morocco\u2019s Director General of the Customs Administration met with his Spanish counterpart, the two parties agreed to create a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-11866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-review","tag-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}