A spokesman for the Moroccan Foreign Ministry told EFE that a joint declaration signed between Morocco and Spain on April 7 acknowledges that there are also “land borders” between the two countries.

According to this senior Moroccan official, the joint declaration signed in April with Spain emphasizes that “full normalization of the movement of people and goods will be restored in due course, including appropriate customs and people control devices at the level of land borders and maritime.”

Thus, the high-ranking official alludes to a land “border” with Spain, a word that was omitted from the declaration, which refers only to the inclusion of customs facilities “at ground and sea level.” The letter drew a reaction from Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who was blunt in the face of the condition omitted from Morocco in the letter: “Ceuta and Melilla are Spain, period,” he said.