Spanish Official Warns of Morocco’s Territorial Ambitions in Ceuta, Melilla, and Canary Islands

"The Moroccan regime, which must be differentiated from the Moroccan people, is an expansionist regime, in addition to being corrupt," Rodriguez said during the closing ceremony of the party’s fifth congress, which confirmed his re-election.

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The Canarian leader particularly insisted on the situation of the Spanish territorial waters, the delimitation of which with the Moroccan ones will be clarified, welcoming the decision of the two countries to reactivate the bipartite working group to review the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf. "We cannot allow Morocco to delimit its continental shelf on the basis of the annexation of the Western Sahara," he argued.

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For the president of Nueva Canarias, the Moroccan government, after obtaining the Sahara, will also try to recover "Ceuta and Melilla, and the islands of the region".