SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 1 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Manuel Marrero, spokesman for the Sí Podemos Canarias Parliamentary Group, reminded this Wednesday both the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, and the President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, that “in relations with Morocco they must defend themselves, and never allow their questioning , the territorial interests of the archipelago”.
After the summit in Morocco in which Sánchez is present and the announcement by President Torres to make an official visit to the neighboring country between February 16 and 21, the parliamentary spokesman points out that his group defends “the application of International Law in matters of water and natural resources and that the constructive dialogue with Morocco includes compliance with UN resolutions”.
“We continue to claim the need to endow the Canary Islands with the status of Full Internal Autonomy under the International Law of the Sea and thus be able to delimit other maritime spaces from the straight archipelagic baselines, not only with respect to Morocco, but also with Portugal, Cape Verde, Mauritania and the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic”, insisted Marrero.
In addition, and in line with what was approved by the European Parliament on January 19, Marrero believes that both President Sánchez and President Torres should remind the Moroccan authorities “to respect freedom of expression and freedom of the media , as well as its international obligations in the field of Human Rights in accordance with the EU-Morocco Association Agreement”.
As he defended last October in the plenary session of the ‘IV Commission on Decolonization of the UN’, Marrero has insisted that Spain and the Canary Islands should firmly maintain “compliance with United Nations resolutions regarding the right of the Saharawi people to freely and democratically decide their political status in accordance with the right of self-determination enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations”.
Marrero recalls that they are also opposed “and it should be on the agenda of both presidents, legitimizing the plundering and looting of the natural resources of Western Sahara”, for which reason “Morocco should be prohibited from trading with them, according to the judgment of December 2016 of the Court of Justice of the EU”.
From Sí Podemos Canarias they consider that “dialogue, consensus, diplomacy and common benefit should prevail in good neighborly relations, but also respect between the parties and opposition to any blackmail, whether in the form of irregular immigration, drugs, terrorism or territorial threats”.
