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Robles assures that Morocco knows what the reality is: "Ceuta and Melilla are Spanish and they will continue to be"

MADRID, 14 Oct.

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Robles assures that Morocco knows what the reality is: "Ceuta and Melilla are Spanish and they will continue to be"

MADRID, 14 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, has assured that Morocco knows what the reality is about Ceuta and Melilla and has defended that they are Spanish and will continue to be so after the Alaouite kingdom has transferred in a letter to the Human Rights Council of the UN that it has no land borders with Spain and that Melilla is an "occupied prison".

"Everyone knows, including Morocco, what the reality is," she said in an interview in Cope, collected by Europa Press, when asked if she is concerned about these statements by Morocco and if she fears for the future of Ceuta and Melilla .

The Minister of Defense has pointed out that it is not "a problem of positions or non-positions". "Ceuta and Melilla are Spain, period. There is nothing else to talk about and that is how it is," the minister responded emphatically in terms similar to those used yesterday by the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.

"Everything else is a debate that I understand can be done, but it is unquestionable and unquestionable that Ceuta and Melilla is as much Spain as the city you want," Minister Robles settled.

Morocco has sent a letter to the UN Human Rights Council in response to the clarifications that had been requested for the "excessive and lethal use of force" against migrants of African origin in the events at the Melilla border fence last June 24.

In their letter, to which Europa Press has had access, they clarify "once again" that it is "inaccurate" to refer to "the line of separation between Morocco and Melilla" as the "Spanish-Moroccan border", as stated in their text by rapporteurs of the UN, since "the Kingdom of Morocco does not have land borders with Spain and Melilla continues to be an occupied prison and for this reason, one cannot speak of borders, but of simple crossing points".

The affirmation of the Alaouite kingdom comes at a sweet moment in the relationship between Spain and Morocco, which last April began a new stage in the diplomatic relationship after the letter sent by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to King Mohamed VI affirming that the Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara is "the most solid, realistic and credible basis" for a solution to the conflict.