The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will meet on Friday in La Palma with the President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, to discuss, among other issues, the migration crisis that the archipelago is going through.
This was announced on Tuesday by Clavijo, who reported that the cabinet of the Moncloa Palace has contacted the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands this Tuesday to arrange a meeting in which he hopes to “discuss important matters” for the islands and “normalise everything” in terms of relations between the two institutions.
Clavijo has insisted that the archipelago’s capacity to care for minors as dictated by international treaties has been exceeded and that the Canary Islands do not want to “store” children in tents “as if they were bottles or oranges.” “What response do we want to give? Do we want to break international treaties? Do we want to be complicit in the violation of the rights of minors or do we want to give the response that we legally have to give and that we civically have to do?” he asked.
“In the end, it is not about putting them in tents and feeding them, but about developing a process of integration, of training them, of schooling them, of giving them emotional attention and of giving them health care. And in that, obviously, the limit has already been exceeded. That is why we have declared an emergency,” he commented.
Visit to Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia from 27th
Sánchez and Clavijo will meet during the Prime Minister’s holiday stay on the islands – where he arrived last week – as requested by various levels of the archipelago’s public administrations. In a week, starting on August 27, Sánchez will begin an international tour in which he will visit Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia.
The Canarian president himself insisted on Monday, in a press conference in La Palma, which was also attended by the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, in requesting this meeting with Sánchez, since he considered that, “out of institutional courtesy, the reasonable thing would be for us to be able to discuss matters.”
He did not clarify how the meeting will be held or whether Sánchez will visit any of the migrant reception centres in the Canary Islands, but the regional president believes that the meeting should not be “colloquial, but rather something formal.”
The PSOE attacks the PP for its “xenophobic” messages
This Tuesday, the spokesman for the Socialist Group in Congress, Patxi López, has accused the PP of “lacking humanity” for “going over to the dark side” and assuming the xenophobic discourse of the far right on immigration matters. The spokesman for the Socialists in Congress has recalled that the Popular Party rejected in July the consideration of the reform of the Immigration Law that formalised the distribution of unaccompanied minors between the Autonomous Communities. A tool that, in the opinion of the PSOE, would be enough to solve the collapse of the resources that Ceuta or the Canary Islands now have. “The PP has not lost its way, it has lost its humanity”, he added.
López added that the main opposition party “continues to deny reality and prefers its apocalypses.” And he insisted that the socialists presented a modification to the Immigration Law to resolve or accommodate children who flee their countries and arrive on our shores simply seeking to live. And the PP voted against it despite the fact that it was a proposal agreed with the Government of the Canary Islands, supported by the Popular Party.”
Source: www.eldiario.es
