Association of Diplomats warns that agreement with Junts may undermine the State's competence in foreign policy

Expresses its "legitimate pride" in the work defending the Spanish democratic system since 2017 "with notable success"

MADRID, 10 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Association of Spanish Diplomats (ADE), the majority among the Diplomatic Career, has spoken this Friday about the investiture agreement reached by the PSOE and Junts to warn that what was agreed could undermine the exclusive competence of the State in matters of foreign policy.

In a statement, he expressed his "concern" about the inclusion in the agreement sealed between PSOE and Junts the day before in Brussels of "a clause to expand the direct participation of Catalonia in the European institutions and other international organizations and entities."

In this sense, it warns that, "like the recent proposal to create a 'foreign action and European Union' body of the Generalitat of Catalonia, it can undermine the exclusive competence of the State in matters of international relations" established by the Constitution.

The ADE recalls that "the Diplomatic Career is entrusted with the representation of Spain abroad and that in fulfilling this mission, diplomats defend the interests of Spain as a whole and of Spaniards abroad."

On the other hand, the association expresses its "incomprehension" of the fact that the text considers that the "various resolutions of international organizations, such as the Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions, the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights or the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe" has had a "relevant political impact".

Faced with this statement, remember that diplomats have worked since 2017 following the instructions of successive governments "to explain and defend the foundations of our democratic regime and our rule of law in the EU and in multilateral organizations, in the face of the international campaign of discredit encouraged against Spain by the independence movement" and arguing that this task "has been carried out with notable success." "We diplomats claim it with legitimate pride," she emphasizes.

The ADE has limited itself to commenting only, as it has explained, on the aspects that it considers affect diplomats and therefore concern it as a union organization. In this sense, on Wednesday he had already announced in a communication sent to his partners that he would not comment on the amnesty law.

The Board of Directors of the ADE, which represents 65% of the diplomats, explained that it had come to the conclusion that as an "apolitical association" it is not up to it to take a position "on issues related to the political debate" in Spain given that its associates "have diverse opinions."