SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 26 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, announced this Tuesday in the control session with the Government that from next week the Spanish-Moroccan commission will be launched, where they will discuss, among other issues, the delimitation of the waters Canary Islands and Alawites and where the Canary Executive will also participate, as it did in 2005.
This was stated in response to two questions about the position of the Canarian Executive regarding the oil prospecting announced by Morocco in waters near the Archipelago, carried out by the spokesmen for the parliamentary groups of Sí Podemos Canarias, Manuel Marrero, and Nueva Canarias, Luis Campos .
In his speech, the Canarian president specified that the Spanish-Moroccan commission will be made up of different commissions on immigration, infrastructure and on the delimitation of Canarian and Moroccan waters, a “body that is necessary for Spain and Morocco to clearly put their differences on the table and a delimitation mechanism can be agreed upon that will lead to no more conflicts in the future”.
Torres understands that the Spanish-Moroccan commission can be an opportunity to achieve this delimitation of the waters and that it can be achieved that they have an “indisputable” legal value within international law and validated by the two States.
Regarding the surveys announced by Morocco, Ángel Víctor Torres reiterated that the Government of the Canary Islands opposes these surveys; however, he insisted that, if they occur, they will take place in waters that are the territorial jurisdiction of Morocco, not in Canarian or Saharawi waters.
Torres wanted to make it clear that the Government of the Canary Islands is betting “clearly” on renewable energies, which must be “the present and the future”, and considered that the kingdom of Morocco would also have to make a commitment to clean energies, instead of of for oil. “Prospections -neither here nor there- are neither the present nor the future,” he added.
For his part, the spokesman for the Yes We Can Canarias Parliamentary Group, Manuel Marrero, stated that his party does not accept “neither the blackmail nor the policies of fait accompli” of the Kingdom of Morocco, nor “the expansionist and territorial desires” over the Archipelago. and its waters, and warned that these surveys put marine biodiversity, the coasts or the desalination of water in the Canary Islands in “serious danger”.
For this reason, he asked the president to continue “firmly” in defending the interests of the Archipelago before the kingdom of Morocco and to continue demanding this from the State Government.
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the NC Group, Luis Campos, pointed out that the “continuous impediments” that the Kingdom of Morocco and the “laziness” on the part of the different Governments of Spain have meant that the Canary Islands continue to demand the delimitation of that median , which would guarantee “once and for all” who belongs to which strip of sea. “It is essential to complete this process, we demand that the Canary Islands be present in these negotiating rounds,” he said.
