The spokesperson for the Canarian Coalition in the Congress of Deputies, Cristina Valido, has requested information from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, regarding the military maneuvers that Morocco will carry out from September 1st in Atlantic waters located about 140 kilometers from the island of Fuerteventura.
These military exercises, which the North African country has described as ordinary military maneuvers, will be active until the end of the year, so the deputy of the Canarian Coalition demands information from the Spanish Government about the characteristics of the Moroccan maneuvers and warns of their impact on a fragile natural environment off the Canary Islands.
“We need to know what information the Spanish Government has, and specifically the Minister of Foreign Affairs, about these military maneuvers that Morocco has already announced, that is, that in two weeks they will be developing very close to the islands”, says the spokesperson for the Canarian Coalition in the Congress of Deputies.
In this sense, Cristina Valido requests all available data on shooting exercises that, according to the Government of Rabat, will take place in a maritime space in the waters of Western Sahara located about 140 kilometers from the coasts of the island of Fuerteventura.
“What information does the Spanish Government have about maneuvers so close to the archipelago?”, Cristina Valido asks the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, whom she also asks about the information that his department has shared with the Government of the Canary Islands about the characteristics of these new military maneuvers by Morocco in waters near the Canary Islands.
In this scenario, the spokesperson for the Canarian Coalition in the Congress of Deputies is also interested in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the possible harmful consequences of the Moroccan shooting exercises on the natural environment of the maritime spaces of the Atlantic where the military maneuvers announced by Rabat are planned to take place.
In this sense, Valido conveys to Minister Albares "the concern of the Canarian nationalists for the safeguarding of biodiversity and warns of the presence of cetaceans in the area. These maritime spaces are valued as one of the ocean corridors richest in biodiversity on the planet”, says the CC deputy, “and the Spanish Government must be aware of the serious environmental damage that military exercises could cause”.
