Spain and Morocco for the exchange of information against terrorism – Terra Peru

The governments of Spain and Morocco agree on the importance of the continuous exchange of information in the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking, “based on trust”.

This was expressed today the interior ministers of Spain, Jorge Fernandez Diaz, and Morocco, Mohamed Hassad, supporters of the need to further strengthen cooperation in the fight against terrorism jihadist, illegal immigration and drug trafficking, as reported in a statement.

Spain and Morocco have cooperated in joint operations that managed to dismantle terrorist cells, such as those dedicated to recruitment and transportation of foreign terrorist fighters into conflict zones.

According to the Spanish Ministry since 2014 and so far have been developed jointly eight operations against jihadists, with a total of 68 detainees: 42 of them in Morocco and 26 in different Spanish localities.

During the meeting at the headquarters of the Spanish Ministry, the two delegations expressed satisfaction with the effectiveness and results at the operational level between the two countries, especially in the fight against terrorism and organized crime, as emphasized in the joint statement to the media.

stressed on drugs has been substantially reduced drug trafficking using light airplanes in the Strait of Gibraltar.

The management of migration flows has been also analyzed at the meeting of the two ministers, who reiterated “their determination to promote, together, an overall approach, integrating dimensions security, humanitarian and development “.

In this sense, Fernandez Diaz highlighted “humanitarian approach” to the new Moroccan immigration policy, especially with regard to regularization, integration of immigrants and the protection of vulnerable.

Convinced of the “inseparable” nature of security in the Mediterranean basin and the Sahel region, now marked by endemic instability that different factions are nurtured and terrorist organizations and criminals, both ministers expressed the “urgent” need for broad regional cooperation, added the note.

A collaboration that could be “in the initiation and operation of collective action to stop the currently real terrorist threat and increasingly worrying”.

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