Ghali heads the Algeria-backed Polisario Front.
His presence in Spain has angered Morocco which has accused the Spanish government of endangering relations with Rabat.
In a response to a strongly-worded statement by the Moroccan Foreign Ministry, Spanish Foreign Minister, Arancha Gonzalez Laya, said Spain had “nothing to add to what has been said” regarding Ghali’s case.
The Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a strongly worded statement rejecting Madrid’s justifications for the decision to receive Ghali.
The ministry said that the failure of the Spanish authorities to inform their Moroccan counterparts of Ghali’s hospitalisation was not a “simple omission but rather a premeditated act, a voluntary choice and a sovereign decision by Spain, of which Morocco takes full note.”
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