Spain Defends Humanitarian Aid to Polisario Leader at UN Amid Passport Controversy

By accepting to host the head of the separatist movement on Spanish territory, the "government has reacted to a humanitarian crisis", explained Pedro Sánchez. "Spain has saved a person who was about to die. [...] This is the only argument with which the government has justified Ghali’s entry into Spanish territory," he added.

He also called for "waiting for the results of the investigation into the falsification of his passport". It is necessary "to continue the investigations concerning the false diplomatic passport (with which Ghali entered Spain, editor’s note) so that the overall picture is clear," continued the Spanish head of government.

Since Tuesday, Arancha Gonzalez Laya, former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, is the subject of an investigation into the conditions of the reception of the Polisario leader. In a press release, the regional court of Aragon (northeast) states that an investigating judge of the court of Saragossa (northeast) "has decided to summon the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Arancha Gonzalez Laya to be heard as part of the judicial investigation into the Ghali affair". His date of appearance has not yet been specified.