Protesters have been restricting the flow of food and goods to the Melilla enclave in a dispute over alleged police violence and racism against Moroccans who work day jobs there or shop for luxury items to sell in their own less prosperous country.
A protest just outside the city of Melilla on Thursday halted most supplies into the enclave. That happened even though the kings of the two countries — longtime allies — spoke by telephone on Wednesday to try to calm tempers in the 3-week-old dispute.
On Friday, a poster protesting the use of Spanish police women at the border with Morocco, a mainly Muslim country, was criticized as "a provocative taunt" by Spain's Unified Police Union.
The centuries-old Spanish enclave of Melilla, located between the Mediterranean Sea and northern Morocco, has a population of 70,000 and is claimed by Morocco.
Spain's Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba and Morocco's recently appointed foreign minister, Taieb Cherkaoui, will meet for the first time in Morocco on Aug.
23, the two governments said in statements Saturday.
In addition to Melilla, they will discuss "security cooperation and the fight against illegal migration, drug trafficking, organized crime and terrorism," the governments said.
