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Spain announced Friday a “new stage” in its tense ties with Morocco after Madrid changed its position and backed Rabat’s autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara territory. Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said Rabat’s 2007 proposal to offer Western Sahara autonomy within Morocco was the “most serious, realistic and credible basis” to end a decades-long dispute over the vast territory. Spain has until now tried to appear neutral on the issue of Western Sahara, a territory which Morocco considers its own but where an Algeria-backed independence movement demands a sovereign stat…