Spain Dismisses Polisario’s Fishing Proposal, Focuses on EU-Morocco Agreement

11 July 2023 – byPrince · 1 min read

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, did not give importance to the Polisario Front’s proposal to issue licenses to Canary Island fishermen so that they can carry out their activities in the waters of the Sahara after the end, on July 17, of the agreement between the EU and Morocco.

"I don’t give it more value," Planas told EFE after a meeting with the rector of the University of Cordoba (UCO), Manuel Torralbo, stating that this type of agreement only exists "between Morocco and the European Union."

The Spanish Minister of Agriculture indicates that he exchanged with his Moroccan counterpart last weekend in Rome, on the occasion of the FAO Assembly, on the need to make the "technical evaluation of the agreement" which expires on July 17, and to prepare "a new protocol."

Planas also addressed on the occasion the organization in Cordoba, from September 3 to 5, of the summit on agriculture, within the framework of the Spanish presidency of the EU, announcing that the debates will focus on the "new technologies intended for agri-food production."

Category: Spain

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Spain European Union Polisario Fishing Moroccan Sahara