The Minister of Finance and PSOE number two for Congress from Valencia, Arcadi España, insisted this Monday on “the firm commitment” of the central Government to the Canary Islands and stressed that the Interministerial Commission on Immigration, which will meet tomorrow, is “a very important meeting” and that “there we will see what measures are taken.”
España has expressed himself in these terms in Valencia, after being asked about the demands that the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, will bring this Tuesday to the aforementioned interministerial commission, in which he will present an eight-point document with “specific measures” agreed upon by all parliamentary groups in the “Canary Islands Pact for Migration,” in order to address the migratory crisis that is being experienced on the island of El Hierro.
In recent hours, Salvamento Marítimo has located and intercepted five cayucos with more than 500 people on board in waters near the Canary archipelago, from the afternoon-evening of Sunday until shortly after midday of this Monday, which reflects the migratory pressure that the area is undergoing.
Asked whether the central Government will assume the requests that are raised from the Canary Islands, the minister pointed out that “the commitment of the Government of Spain with the Canary Islands and the migratory situation, which is not new, but has been going on, is clear and manifest.”
Along these lines, he highlighted that “there is permanent dialogue with Clavijo” through the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, an interlocution that he has described as “very fluid and very good” for the archipelago and that, as he indicated, “has allowed, despite that migratory pressure it has, to continue making progress in all aspects, especially on the island of El Hierro.”
Likewise, he reiterated that the interministerial commission convened for tomorrow will be “very important, with the participation of many ministers and also with part of the Government of the Canary Islands, and there we will see what measures are taken.”
In any case, he emphasized that “the Government of the Canary Islands and, above all, all the citizens of the islands perfectly know the firm commitment of the Government of Spain to all the neighbors and neighbors-to-be, and also to the policy of respect for the human rights of all migrants who are arriving in these times.”