What strait divides Morocco and Spain?
Morocco–Spain relations investigation of the 2004 bombings in Madrid and this relationship continues. Moroccan soldiers have served under Spanish command in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti and Moroccan gendarmes have joined Spanish patrols to combat illegal immigration in the Strait of Gibraltar. On 31 July-1 August 2018 Morocco indefinitely closed the Beni Ansar Customs near Melilla. Morocco–Spain relations In recent times, Morocco–Spain relations have been friendly though intermittently discordant. Spain occupied two territorial enclaves on Africa's Mediterranean coast (Ceuta and Melilla) that are also claimed by Morocco and sometimes cause bilateral tensions. Other territorial disputes and the Western Sahara issue
Morocco–Spain relations Morocco–Spain relations In recent times, Morocco–Spain relations have been friendly though intermittently discordant. Spain occupied two territorial enclaves on Africa's Mediterranean coast (Ceuta and Melilla) that are also claimed by Morocco and sometimes cause bilateral tensions. Other territorial disputes and the Western Sahara issue also sometimes cause tension. In October 2001, Morocco recalled its ambassador from Madrid after pro-Saharan groups in Spain conducted a mock referendum on the fate of the region. In the July 2002 Perejil Island crisis, Spanish troops ejected Moroccan soldiers from the uninhabited Perejil Island off the Moroccan coast; Spain asserted that it had controlled the