"Every death is a wake-up call to remind us that it is a problem that must be addressed in depth." This is how the Minister of Culture and Sports, José Guirao, has expressed himself after the death this Wednesday of an immigrant who arrived in a small boat in Lanzarote, coinciding precisely with his visit to the island.
"It is a horror this constant loss of lives", Guirao stated, who believes that "we must support the development of these countries to stop migratory movements." "Because people, when they leave their country, often do so fleeing from war and always from hunger and backwardness, and what must be done is to work with these countries to help them develop and stop the need that many people have to leave", he has
In this sense, the Minister of Culture and Sports has pointed out that "the Government, shortly before the elections, approved the Africa Plan that goes precisely in that direction, to increase Spanish, international, to help these countries find their path of development, and prevent these dramas from continuing to occur."
However, he also pointed out that "the Government has at all times expressed the need to understand that this is a European problem, not only of Spain, but also of the countries that serve as transit such as Morocco." "And also all kinds of cooperation with Morocco has been strengthened in these 10 months of Government and the economic cooperation of the EU to help these countries to be able to absorb and work with this immigration", he concluded.
