Spanish Deputy PM Backtracks on Morocco Comments at UN Meeting

At a press conference after presenting Spain’s first resolution on the social economy to the UN General Assembly, Yolanda Diaz avoided a journalist’s question asking her if she still thinks that Morocco, a UN member state, is a dictatorship. "What I want to say precisely because I am at the UN is that I want to thank Morocco because it has defended and accompanied the Spanish government but also the rest of the countries in the framework of this resolution," said the deputy prime minister.

In this resolution, Diaz stressed that the social economy must receive international support in order to build an alternative economic