Far-Right Vox Party Seeks NATO Protection for Spanish Enclaves Ceuta and Melilla

Vox had filed this bill since June, a few days after the massive influx of Moroccan migrants into the city of Ceuta, causing an unprecedented migration crisis. In this document to which Europa Press had access, the far-right formation denounces the fact that neither Ceuta nor Melilla are under NATO protection, and could therefore not benefit from the military support of the organization in the face of "a possible attack or invasion" by Morocco.

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This is why the Vox parliamentary group, led by Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, is asking the government of Pedro Sanchez to take all necessary steps with NATO to amend Article 6 of the Washington Treaty to explicitly include the cities of Ceuta and Melilla. "Spain would benefit from having the two cities, at least on paper, sheltered from any Moroccan conspiracy on these territories and, consequently, from having the integrity of Spanish territory guaranteed," the political formation stressed in its proposal.