Spain Seeks Diplomatic Breakthrough: King Mohammed VI Invited for World Cup 2030 Ceremony

The government of Pedro Sánchez is mobilizing for this official visit by Mohammed VI, twenty years after his first and only visit to Spain in 2005, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Madrid attacks. At the forefront, the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Directorate General of Protocol, Chancellery and Foreign Orders, which has already sent an official invitation to Rabat, indicate diplomatic sources to Ok Diario.

For the moment, the Moroccan authorities have not reacted to this invitation from Sánchez. According to the Spanish media, there are strong chances that Mohammed VI will decline this invitation, especially since the Moroccan Sovereign has not made an official trip to a European country for many years. His last official trip to Europe dates back to 2018, when, at the invitation of Emmanuel Macron, he had participated in the celebrations of the centenary of the end of the First World War.

La Moncloa is keen on this official trip by Mohammed VI to Madrid which, according to it, should mark a "total reconciliation" between the two countries after several years of diplomatic tensions, opened in 2018 with the arrival in Spain under a false identity of Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario Front, and exacerbated by the accusations of spying on the phones of Sánchez and some of his ministers using Pegasus, leveled against Morocco.

The official ceremony for the designation by FIFA of Spain, Morocco and Portugal as host countries for the 2030 World Cup should take place "between November and February 2025," the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs specifies.