Senegal&ndash;Spain relations

Senegal–Spain relations

Senegal-Spain relations are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between these two countries. Senegal has an embassy in Madrid. Spain has an embassy in Dakar.
Stresses the visit of S.M. Queen Doña Sofía in greater than 2006, accompanied by the SECI that takes place within the framework of a visit to several projects of
Spanish Cooperation and the growing involvement of Spain in humanitarian projects in Senegal. The real turning point in relations came from the summer of 2006, on the occasion of the cayucos crisis, which implied the massive arrival of almost 30,000 Senegalese immigrants along the Canary Islands. From then on, relations began to be based on the search for a common strategy in the fight against illegal immigration, and they were maturing throughout 2006 and 2007 until they became a true partnership that far exceeds the scope of Migrations As a result of this new approach, visits by delegations of the Ministries of Interior, Foreign Affairs, Justice and Labor and Social Affairs began to occur frequently, culminating in December 2006 with the first visit of a President of the Government Spanish, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, to the Republic of Senegal.

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