“Ceuta and Melilla are Spain”, Pedro Sánchez settled, at the end of the more than six hours in which he appeared this Thursday in the Congress of Deputies.
With this exhaustive statement, the President of the Government has picked up the glove of the Popular Party, whose spokesperson in Congress, Cuca Gamarra, had previously urged him to take advantage of his appearance to give a full response to the letter that Morocco has sent to the UN, in which ensures that it has no land borders with Spain. "It must defend the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Spain", Gamarra has summoned Sánchez, and has demanded that he affirm that Rabat's position "is flatly false".
In the letter sent to the UN Human Rights Council, which demanded clarification for the "excessive and lethal use of force" against migrants of African origin during the assault on the Melilla border fence last June, Morocco has rejected as "inaccurate" to refer to the "separation line between Morocco and Melilla" as "Spanish-Moroccan border". “The Kingdom of Morocco does not have land borders with Spain, and Melilla continues to be an occupied prison. For this reason, one cannot speak of borders, but of simple crossing points, ”says the statement from the Alaouite kingdom.
All this despite the recomposition of relations between Spain and Morocco certified last April, once Sánchez recognized before Mohamed VI that the Moroccan plan for the autonomy of the Sahara is "the most solid, realistic and credible basis" for a solution to this entrenched conflict.
Sánchez, after learning of this letter from Morocco to the UN, spoke at his seat with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, after which he responded to the PP's demands. “Ceuta and Melilla are Spain. Point one”, he has settled it.
