SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 18 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The national secretary general of the Canarian-PNC Coalition, Fernando Clavijo, has urged the promotion of “a Canarian front” of all the institutions, social and economic agents and society to protect the Islands against the interests of Morocco after learning of the approval today of two authorizations to drill two wells in Tarfaya, near the Canarian waters.
The leader of the Canarian nationalists said at the end of the National Executive Committee meeting on Monday that neither Sánchez nor Torres “are going to lift a finger at the reactivation of prospecting by Morocco.”
He also added that these authorizations from the Moroccan government to search for deposits of tellurium, oil or gas in Tarfaya, just off the coast of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura and at this time, “do not indicate the start of a negotiation between the two countries as has been sold the president, Pedro Sánchez, but an agreement already closed”.
The nationalist leader warned of the seriousness of a situation that they warned “from minute one” both in the Cortes and in the Canary Islands and described the start of the new framework of relations between Spain and Morocco as “reckless” and the role that is being carried out by both the Canarian president and his government.
“They cannot bow their heads when Morocco has already approved the planting of platforms to prospect in front of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, they cannot give up while Spain deals with the delimitation of waters, putting the natural heritage and the economy of the archipelago at risk and while Morocco continues to win land in their eagerness to appropriate the waters of the Exclusive Economic Zone,” Clavijo said.
Fernando Clavijo demands that President Torres clarify whether the Canary Islands were aware of and have participated in these negotiations between Spain and the Kingdom of Morocco, which he describes as “paripé”, or whether, on the contrary, “the State, once again, has taken the decision to unilaterally close an agreement that includes the approval of prospecting in waters near the archipelago despite the consequences that could arise from this activity”, something that he points out would be “very serious and an unprecedented blow from the state government to the Islands “.
The nationalist leader insists that Spain “is allowing tastings to be carried out in front of the Canary Islands through the back door, surveys that we know today through a media outlet and not by the Government of Spain or the Canary Islands, which would be logical” . In this context, he denounces “the opacity around negotiations in which the Canary Islands should not be a spectator but part of the negotiation”.
In the same way, he warns that the control of the migratory flow “cannot be in any case the price to give in to Morocco in matters such as the delimitation of waters or the right of
self-determination of the Sahara” because “we are not talking about a conjunctural issue but a structural one that is never going to end and that the Alawite country will continue to use as it pleases as it has done historically,” he added.
