Spanish firefighters supporting Morocco. Credit: DR
The Spanish government reiterated on Tuesday its firm commitment to continuing its cooperation with Morocco in the fight against fires.
Under bilateral agreements signed with several countries, including Morocco, Spain will continue its cooperation with the Kingdom in the fight against fires, underlines a press release from the Presidency of the Spanish Government, made public at the end of the meeting. of the Council of Ministers.
To this end, an action plan was adopted for the prevention and fight against forest fires under 2024 aimed at establishing the means with which the general administration of the State supports regional fire-fighting mechanisms , and which has a unifying, global and coordinating vocation for all State policy in this area.
This agreement approves the measures contained in the action plan for preventing and combating forest fires for the year 2024, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, takes note of the report on the implementation measures contained in the forest fire prevention and fight action plan for the year 2023.
Since 2005, the Spanish government has adopted each year a set of interdepartmental measures which constitute the annual action plan for the prevention and fight against forest fires.
