The president of the Migrant Network of Tenerife and vice president of the Association of African Women in the Canary Islands, Soukaina Ndiaye, affirmed yesterday that the Spanish Government has abandoned its neutrality to become “an aggressor” of the Saharawi people, who “have lived through Ukraine” , and has wondered if Pedro Sánchez “would take a photo with Putin.” Ndiaye, of Saharawi origin, referred in this way, during her intervention before the commission that studies immigration in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, to the visit that Sánchez made yesterday to the King of Morocco, Mohamed VI.
Ndiaye warned that in the face of the turn of the Spanish Government in relation to the Saharawi conflict “it would have been better if Putin had bombed the Saharawi people”, while pointing out that they are not “something with which Pedro Sánchez can negotiate, we are not merchandise ». The President of the Government of Spain “has had the audacity to try to sell the Sahara” when the country has a historical obligation to said territory and must protect its people from Morocco, insisted Soukaina Ndiaye, for whom Spain “infects” other European countries with his way of acting.
In his opinion, Morocco will continue blackmailing Spain and the European Union with immigration, but the Sahara will no longer be its buffer, with which the Spanish government “has it raw”. In addition, he affirmed that the Saharawi people have been “betrayed” by the socialist presidents, Felipe González, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and now Pedro Sánchez.
Ndiaye stressed that despite being born under the Spanish mandate, he has gone through “those of Cain” to obtain nationality, which is still in process, and criticized the “many failures” in the reception system for migrants who, in his opinion, “are going to more” because “now it seems that there are no more refugees than those from Ukraine”.
“The immigrant’s drama is hard and it can take months or even years from when he leaves his house until he arrives in Europe,” said the president of the Migrant Network of Tenerife, for whom Frontex “does not do the job it has to do and it is not effective”, because “if it did, so many human lives would not have been lost at sea”.
In the same committee of the Canarian Parliament, Etienne de Perier, representative of the European Migration Agency of the European Commission (EC), stated that they are studying giving economic funds to the Canary Islands to attend to unaccompanied migrant minors, even though asylum resources are destined for adults or adults with minors. In addition, he has urged the Spanish Government to develop a “national policy” and promote the distribution of minors in its territory because the situation in the Archipelago is “concerning”, with almost 3,000 under its guardianship.
The EC is working on a new model that seeks to improve the migration management system, respecting the rights of people and distinguishing between refugees and migrants, with the aim of “restoring confidence” and launching a “sustainable system,” he said. In addition, she pointed out that a “more equitable distribution of responsibility and solidarity” must be achieved and each state must “contribute in times of need” by promoting the return from third countries.
