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The meeting held this Sunday at Lanzarote airport between the cabinet of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Aminetu Haidar's entourage, gathered in a platform, has been a "disappointment", according to the Saharawi activist's lawyer, Inés Miranda, who after the interview with the senior leaders has requested the "urgent intervention" of the President of the Government of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, so that the hunger strike does not end in "a tragedy".
According to Miranda, Miguel Ángel Moratinos' emissaries, composed of his Chief of Staff, Agustín Santos, and two of the minister's most trusted men, Diego Martínez and Pedro Villena, have offered political asylum and a Spanish passport, proposals that have been rejected because in the words of the lawyer Haidar, "she does not want to feel like a foreigner in her own home". The island delegate of Lanzarote, Carmelo García, also represented state interests.
The activist, who suffered a fainting spell during the meeting held at noon, did not join the resumption of the dialogue early in the afternoon due to medical prescription, since the energy consumed would be equivalent, according to doctors, "to two or three days on hunger strike", so the councilor of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, Carmelo Ramírez, a member of the Support Platform, Fernando Peraita, the representatives of the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation and a relative Larisi Haidar, in addition to the lawyer Inés Miranda herself, who acted as spokesperson, spoke on her behalf.
During the first meeting, Haidar addressed the senior Spanish representatives, pointing out that they had violated the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, while Agustín Santos acknowledged that Morocco, by expelling her, violated the activist's rights.
"It is not a technical issue, but of good will on the part of the Spanish Government", Miranda specified, before the media. "We asked for a serious proposal and today we have had a great disappointment and regret", she said, while warning that the state of health of her represented "continues to worsen and is serious".
ACN