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  • Spain reaches agreement with Morocco, soldiers withdraw from Perejil island

    07/20/2002 11:54:30 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 240+ views
    The Spanish soldiers withdraw small island (witnesses) Saturday July 20, 2002 - 18h46 GMT JBEL FOAMED (Morocco), 20 juil (AFP) - the Spanish soldiers deployed on the Leila/Perejil small island started their withdrawal of the Leïla/Perejil small island, confirmed with the AFP several witnesses who were on Jbel Moussa (Moussa hill) overhanging the coast. About fifty Spanish soldiers, with their parcellings, had been evacuated by helicopters with 18H30 GMT, specified these witnesses. The Spaniards deployed on the island since July 17, were 75 approximately, according to information's given by Madrid. This withdrawal intervenes at the time when Washington and...
  • Spain Offers to Withdraw From Island

    07/18/2002 7:51:37 AM PDT · by Dog Gone · 5 replies · 209+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Thursday, July 18, 2002 | JEROME SOCOLOVSKY
    MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Hours after recapturing a tiny, disputed Mediterranean island from Morocco, Spain offered Thursday to withdraw its troops if Morocco promised not to reoccupy the largely uninhabited rock. Foreign Minister Ana Palacio said Spain has ``no desire'' to stay in on the outpost known in Spanish as Isla Perejil -- Parsley Island -- and in Arabic as Leila, or Night. ``It desires to return to the status quo ... but for that it requires a serious status quo, with guarantees,'' Palacio said in remarks broadcast by Spanish radio Thursday morning. ``That is to say, if we leave,...