CANARIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (CNC)
Canary
Islands.
Africa.-
Another deceit more of Madrid on the Exclusive Economic
Zone
The
Government of Madrid, through a statement of the Spanish president Rodríguez
Zapatero distributed by the Spanish official agency Efe, affirmed the past 26 of
May 2009 that its Government had presented a verbal note in New York, in the
United Nations, before the Commission of Limits of the Continental Platform of
the UN, so that Spain have all the rights of "sovereignty to the effects of
exploration of its natural resources". In another paragraph the note of Efe
says that: "
Spain
would have the totality of the rights of sovereignty to the effects of
exploration. It would be a matter of obtaining more rights of sovereignty for
the Spaniards, especially the canaries, sovereignty and jurisdiction in an
extension of 206,000 square kilometers".
The
Spanish verbal note arises now above by a article of the Canarian National
Congress (CNC) published in the independent newspaper of the Canary Islands ¨EL
DÍA¨, on the the First of April, where we said that:
"The UN has fixed the date limit of May 13, 2009 as last time limit
so that the countries that possess a maritime facade or a continental platform
can extend their platform beyond the
200 miles
of Exclusive Economic Zone. The Moroccan Government, who at the moment has its
200 miles
of Exclusive Economic Zone, is going to extend it to
350 miles
in their Atlantic part, since the African platform finishes in the islands of
Lanzarote and
Fuerteventura. In their neighborhood and in their funds are great amounts of gas, petroleum
and other resources.
Before
this publication in the Canary Islands in a newspaper of so much importance, in
Canary Islands and out of Canary Islands, like is ¨EL DÍA¨, the most sold of
the Canarian Archipelago, the Spanish colonialist Government and mainly the
party Canarian Coalition were frightened for the removed delicate matter at
these moments of European elections in which they need the votes of the canarian
people to continue governing and deceiving this People that seeks its
sovereignty and that expects that Spain decolonize before 2010, as demands the
United Nations.
The
Spanish metropolis never has officially presented documents before the UN before
this date in 10 years, time limit that had fixed the United Nations for the
extension of its continental platform and for the called canarian sea that
demands its protected, the Cananarian Coalition party (CC). The logical thing is
that if
Spain
had the right that demands,
Spain
would used tham in these 10 years sending documents and marine charts so that
the Commission of Limits of the Continental Platform of the UN examined it and
called to consultations the adjacent countries as
Portugal
and
Morocco. Only the last day, and alerted Madrid by the Spanish Socialist Party in Canary
Islands and by Mrs. Ana Oramas and the senator of the mixed group of the Canary
Coalition party, Alfredo Belda, that they do not want that the canarian people
think at these moments, forced the Spanish Government to send a Verbal Note in
the last moment to the UN. The maneuver of
Madrid
does not affect to the rights of
Morocco
neither is going to influence in the international agreements on the sea of the
Conference of Montego Bay.
Spain
forgets that in their African colony of Canary Islands it only has
12 miles
around each island since they are African islands of a distant archipelago out
of
Europe
and in another continent. Canary Islands is not Europe and this is perfectly
known in Africa,
Europe
and in the United Nations. Proof of it is that all the international and
spanish flights to the Canary Islands are controlled by the aerial control tower
of
Casablanca. All the flights between Canary Islands and Europe are international flights,
although they come from Madrid
or another Spanish airport. They must be controlled for
Morocco
and, in case of emergency, the airplanes will have to land in Moroccan
territory. If in the control tower of
Casablanca
the controllers put themselves in strike, no airplane coming from Europe can
enter in the
Canary Islands.
In
the year 1975, when
Spain
yielded the Sahara to
Morocco
and
Mauritania,
Madrid
requested to
Morocco
that in exchange for the Sahara an air corridor between
Spain
and Canaries controlled by Spain
but
Rabat
was opposed formally since Canary Islands is in
Africa
and the international laws could not be violated. The same happens with the
waters that surround Canary Islands: except the
12 miles
from each island the remainder are waters inside the Moroccan Exclusive
Economic Zone and only when it were settled in these islands the Federal
Republic of Canary Islands will be negotiated all the relating to the median and
to the respective Exclusive Economic Zone with Morocco, member of the United
Nations, and will be only when the control towers of Canary Islands will be able
to receive the International flights as soon as enter our air space. These are
the truths of the international laws that we and
Morocco, our neighbor by the North, will respect, and not the Spanish statements
published by Efe official agency in
Madrid
on the past 26 of May 2009.
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Date:
3 June 2009.
Africa.
Canary Islands.
*
Signed, Antonio Cubillo, President of the Canarian National Congress, political
arm of the MPAIAC (Canary Islands Independence Movement).
cubilloantonio@hotmail.com
mpaiac@elguanche.info
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Documento en castellano, traducido del original en
inglés