Morocco rejects any EU moves for it to host migrants

 Morocco's foreign minister on Thursday rejected any moves by the European Union to outsource reception centres for migrants beyond the bloc's borders to his country.


"Morocco rejects and has always rejected these kinds of methods for managing the issue of migration flows," Nasser Bourita said in Rabat after meeting his Spanish counterpart Josep Borrell.

Bourita criticised such measures as "easy solutions" and "counterproductive".

Along with Tunisia and Albania, Morocco has been one of the countries mentioned as possible locations to host migrants at reception centres outside Europe, an issue to be discussed at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday.

Spain is the third biggest destination for migrants in the European Union after Italy and Greece.
  [dailystar.com.lb/AFP]
 28/6/18