Podemos has denounced on the afternoon of Thursday that a MEP delegation in which his deputy Isa Serra was being held at the Aaiún airport, capital of the Western Sahara, for “unidentified people.” Formation sources transmit that they have been prevented from developing the planned visit to make an observation mission on the fulfillment of canceling agriculture and fishing agreements between the European Union and Morocco.
Serra herself has spread a video on her Instagram account in which they are seen on the plane, while a man blocks their landing. “We are retained by Moroccans who have not even identified, that they have not given us any role and that are being retained absolutely illegally here on the plane,” says the Eurodiputa in the recording. The Delegation is also part of the Finnish deputy Jussi Saramo and the Portuguese Catarina Martins. After the failed landing, the delegation has flown to Gran Canaria, from which Serra has denounced the “mafia practices of the Moroccans” and has assured that they have informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the incident, in addition to asking the president of the president of the Eurocamara, Roberta Metsola.
“From Podemos we demand that the Spanish, European and Moroccan authorities that are attentive to their obligations and allow the entry of these public office that are carrying out the exercise of their functions,” says the party statement. The mission was also contemplated a meeting with representatives of the United Nations Mission in charge of fulfilling the self -determination referendum for the Western Sahara (minurs European and Moroccan companies of the occupied territory ”.
In a statement, the representative of the Polisario Front in Spain, Abdulah Arabi, has shown in a statement the “most energetic conviction” of the Polisario to the expulsion and has denounced that “Morocco denies, systematically denies the entry into the western Sahara to journalists, activists and political representatives “, in order to” hide the violations of human rights to which she submits to the civilian population Saharawi ”.
Last October, the TJUE knocked down the fishing and commercial agreements of the community club with Morocco, although he granted a 12 -month grace period to execute the ruling on the second pact. The validity of the first expired in July 2023. The High European Court thus endorsed a judgment of the EU General Court that in 2021, to demands of the Polisario Front, signed between Morocco and the EU. Then it was determined that they involved trade with Western Sahara products, which involved deploying its effects on a territory that the international community does not recognize as part of Morocco. In addition, he remarked that for these agreements the consent of the Saharawi people was not obtained, as the third involved. Several member states had appealed to the TJUE that sentence that the High Court ratified by dismissing its resources.
The formation claims that according to the Privileges and Immunities Protocol of the European Union and the Statute of the Members of the European Parliament, all administrations have the obligation to provide guarantees so that the MEPs can exercise their work, even more, in matters of human rights.
The Eurodiputados have given notice to the Delegation of the European Union in Morocco, and the embassies of Finland, Portugal and Spain in Morocco, as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland and Spain.
