Deputy Foreign Minister Juan Pablo de la Iglesia said Spain agrees with Morocco's contention that 14 Spaniards were holding an illegal rally Saturday in the territory's capital, Laayoune, because they lacked permission to stage it.Moroccan passers-by became angry when they saw the sit-in rally on a busy street, set upon the Spanish activists and Moroccan police intervened to break up the altercation, de la Iglesia told Spanish National Radio, quoting the Moroccan version of the event.Eleven of the 14 were detained and held for hours before being released and returning to the Canary Islands Monday.De La Iglesia called his Moroccan counterpart Monday to seek an explanation and said Spain now considers the case closed. "We think that with this, the situation is resolved," he said.This new spat came less than a week after the two countries said they put to rest another conflict regarding alleged brutality by Spanish border police against Moroccans at the frontier between the Spanish enclave of Melilla, which that borders Morocco on North Africa's coast.The Western Sahara is a mineral-rich former Spanish colony located south of Morocco on Africa's northwest coast.Morocco took control of it in 1979, four years after the Spanish pulled out. The Saharawi people seek independence, and a truce has held since 1991 between a rebel group called the Polisario Front and Morocco.In an interview published Tuesday in the Spanish daily El Pais, Moroccan Information Minister Moroccan Minister Khalid Naciri ruled out arresting the Moroccans who beat up the Spanish activists over the weekend."It is like expecting Spain to arrest Spaniards who react against foreigners," he said. "I cannot repress Moroccans who express their feelings. The Spanish demonstrators violated Moroccan law in an outlandish way."Both he and de la Iglesia said this new incident will not harm relations between two countries that cooperate on key issues such as fighting drug trafficking, illegal immigration and religious extremism.