SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 10 May. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Minister of Public Administrations, Justice and Security of the Government of the Canary Islands, Julio Pérez, announced this Tuesday that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, will visit the archipelago on May 26 to present the new diplomatic relationship between Spain and Morocco and its possible consequences for the islands.
In response to a question from the Nationalist Group in the control session of Parliament, he also said that the Canary Islands will have a representative in the working group for the delimitation of maritime spaces, as Albares himself has guaranteed, who speaks “almost daily” with the Canarian president, Ángel Víctor Torres.
Faced with the demanding tone of the Nationalist Group, he has vindicated the work of the regional government — “we demand and we achieve” — putting on the table the recovery of migrant repatriation flights or the decrease in the arrival of small boats.
Questioned about the absence of Canarian representation in the ‘Permanent Group on Migration’, he commented that the statutory obligation is that the Canary Islands be informed, as happened on the same night by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, at the same time that he made the the nationalists who “never said anything” in the last 15 years during the governments of Adán Martín, Paulino Rivero and Fernando Clavijo, when there was no island representation either.
Juan Manuel García Ramos (CC-PNC) has accused the Executive of avoiding “competence responsibilities” in the relationship with Morocco, something that has “serious repercussions” for the economy, territoriality and autonomy of the archipelago.
He pointed out that the autonomous communities are part of the State and therefore have the right to attend migratory meetings and in reference to the fact that historically there was no presence of the Canary Islands, he pointed out that the “sloppy annexation” of Western Sahara had not been configured, the “blackmail” of emigration, the two laws of 2020 on the delimitation of waters or the discovery of the ‘Tropic’ seamount.
“The circumstances are different,” he commented, stressing that there are precedents of what it means not to be in this type of meeting, such as the fact that the Canarian fishermen have been “thrown out” of the Canarian-Saharan bank. “It’s a common sense problem,” she said.
