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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8298

16 September 2002
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/spain/morocco
Rabat wants Ceuta and Melilla back

New York, 16/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Saturday, Morocco's foreign minister Mohammed Benaissa, who is participating in the UN's annual assembly in New York, called for the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla (and the nearby islands "occupied by Spain") to be returned to Morocco, describing the restoration of his country's territorial integrity as an absolute priority. His statement may well raise tension between Spain and Morocco, already tense at the time of the end of the fishing...

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