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09-10-2024, 07:21 AM
The president of the Canary Islands highlights the "effort" made by the Alawite country to "contain the migratory flow"
The President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, said on Tuesday during his visit to Rabat that the migratory situation in Spain and the EU would be "unacceptable" without the "enormous effort" made by Morocco to curb emigration, during a press conference with the Moroccan Foreign Minister, Naser Burita, who highlighted his country's "permanent effort" in this regard.
Clavijo highlighted Morocco's work to contain the flow of migrants to the Canary Islands, especially from the Sahel region and fleeing, he stressed, "hunger, war, climate change and drought".
The Canarian leader pointed out that "surely we can all improve things, but we must value the important role that Morocco is playing in political stability and control", said Clavijo, while assuring that if it did not have "8,000 troops for this task, the situation would be unacceptable for Spain and for the EU". In this sense, he remarked that the Alawite country contributes to tranquility, stability and that mafias cannot roam and generate business by trafficking people.
This is Clavijo's second trip to Morocco and the first of the current legislature. During this visit, he also discussed with Burita the negotiation of territorial waters, an issue on which the Moroccan minister said that "all that remains is to find solutions".
Burita has indicated that his country is fighting against human trafficking networks. "We don't need to be given lessons, Morocco has a 2013 policy on migration, it has allowed 60,000 African migrants to be in a regular situation in Morocco," he said.
The Moroccan minister also denounced that migration has an important political presence on the political agenda of many European countries from a negative side, and that the issue is used as a tool "for political trade".
For Burita, if the size of political discourse is compared with real migration, there is "a precipice" between one thing and the other, between the "discourse of fear, of terror, compared to migration itself."
This does not prevent, he clarified, Morocco from taking an interest in this problem. "These networks must be considered as a cross-border crime that must be addressed quickly; The migrant is not a criminal, but the networks are," he said.
The President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, said on Tuesday during his visit to Rabat that the migratory situation in Spain and the EU would be "unacceptable" without the "enormous effort" made by Morocco to curb emigration, during a press conference with the Moroccan Foreign Minister, Naser Burita, who highlighted his country's "permanent effort" in this regard.
Clavijo highlighted Morocco's work to contain the flow of migrants to the Canary Islands, especially from the Sahel region and fleeing, he stressed, "hunger, war, climate change and drought".
The Canarian leader pointed out that "surely we can all improve things, but we must value the important role that Morocco is playing in political stability and control", said Clavijo, while assuring that if it did not have "8,000 troops for this task, the situation would be unacceptable for Spain and for the EU". In this sense, he remarked that the Alawite country contributes to tranquility, stability and that mafias cannot roam and generate business by trafficking people.
This is Clavijo's second trip to Morocco and the first of the current legislature. During this visit, he also discussed with Burita the negotiation of territorial waters, an issue on which the Moroccan minister said that "all that remains is to find solutions".
Burita has indicated that his country is fighting against human trafficking networks. "We don't need to be given lessons, Morocco has a 2013 policy on migration, it has allowed 60,000 African migrants to be in a regular situation in Morocco," he said.
The Moroccan minister also denounced that migration has an important political presence on the political agenda of many European countries from a negative side, and that the issue is used as a tool "for political trade".
For Burita, if the size of political discourse is compared with real migration, there is "a precipice" between one thing and the other, between the "discourse of fear, of terror, compared to migration itself."
This does not prevent, he clarified, Morocco from taking an interest in this problem. "These networks must be considered as a cross-border crime that must be addressed quickly; The migrant is not a criminal, but the networks are," he said.