The Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee of Morocco has unanimously approved this Tuesday the two laws destined to establish the legal jurisdiction of the country -the two laws of maritime delimitation that affect the Canary Islands and Western Sahara- in the second Chamber of the Alawite Parliament. This has been put on the table by Coalición Canaria, which denounces that this is one more step, pending only the signature of the King of Morocco, "in the decision of the neighboring country to change the delimitation of its maritime border, despite the fact that both the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, Arancha González Laya, and the President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, insisted a few weeks ago that Morocco was not going to take any unilateral action."
For the autonomous senator, Fernando Clavijo, it is once again evident that Morocco "speaks with accomplished facts" while the Government of the Canary Islands "looks the other way." "The lack of concern from Madrid," continued the nationalist leader, "is enormously worrying, but even more alarming is the fact that the President of the Government of the Canary Islands is abandoning his functions and resigning himself to not defending the interests of the Canarians." "The priority of the President of the Canary Islands must be the Canary Islands, not to be on good terms with his party, and in this matter he is demonstrating that his priorities are wrong," he questioned.
For his part, the general secretary of the Canarian nationalists, José Miguel Barragán, considers that "to say, as the Canarian president and the Minister of Foreign Affairs have said, that there will be no unilateral decisions by Morocco, when we see that it continues to take steps for the final approval of the two laws, only demonstrates an alarming lack of concern on the part of a State, which is obliged to comply with our Statute of Autonomy." "Our charter defines the Canary Islands as eight islands and the sea that surrounds them" and that a neighboring country "approves considering part of that sea as its own should raise all alarms." "There is no room, on the part of the Government of the Canary Islands," Barragán pointed out, "for any action other than demanding more forcefulness from the State, although, given what has been seen, we doubt that this will happen."
For the nationalists, in this situation "it is not enough to make loud statements in defense of our sea; what must be done is to make courageous decisions" and the first of them "must be to demand that Madrid file a complaint with the United Nations."
