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The US ambassador to Spain has denied claims that Biden’s administration put pressure on Madrid to change its position on the Western Sahara dispute in support of Morocco’s autonomy plan. “We didn’t push Spain to change its position on Morocco. Spain made its own decision,” said Julissa Reynoson Pantaleón, the newly-appointed US ambassador in Madrid, during an interview with the Spanish daily La Vanguardia published on Monday. Spain, which held a neutral stance on the issue since decolonising the territory in 1975, said last month that Rabat’s 2007 proposal to offer Western Sahara autonomy wit…