Moroccan Journalist Claims Future Annexation of Spanish Territories, Including Canary Islands

"The issue of Ceuta and Melilla has already been the subject of a diplomatic agreement. When the time comes, Morocco will recover Ceuta, Melilla, the Chafarinas Islands and the Canary Islands," said Monday on the Israeli channel i24News, the Moroccan journalist Saïd Affasi, during a debate with the journalist and Sahrawi activist, Taleb Alisalem, who criticized "Moroccan expansionism" in North Africa and asked the Moroccan journalist if "the Canary Islands are now also part of Morocco".

"The one who lives in a delusion is Morocco," added Alisalem, specifying that Morocco "claims not only the Sahara, but also Algerian territories, the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, which are Spanish, and a territory of Mauritania". The Sahrawi journalist calls on Morocco to "renounce this expansionist ideology" to preserve "stability in North Africa" and "build a healthy and beneficial neighborhood for the people".

On December 10, 2020, US President Donald Trump officially recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. A few days later, former Moroccan Prime Minister Saadeddine El Othmani said in an interview with an Egyptian channel that the turn of Ceuta and Melilla "will come". On March 14, 2022, President Pedro Sanchez, in a letter addressed to King Mohammed VI, also expressed his support for Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara.

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