The Government sent a note to the UN to emphasize the Spanish nature of Ceuta and Melilla after Morocco's statements

MADRID, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Government sent a verbal note to the UN Human Rights Council last week in which it emphasized the Spanishness of Ceuta and Melilla after the Government of Morocco had questioned this point in a letter sent to the same organism.

This was revealed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Ángeles Moreno, during her appearance before the Foreign Affairs Commission of Congress to explain the budgets planned for her department in 2023.

"The sovereignty of Ceuta and Melilla is indisputable," Moreno stressed, hence the fact that a verbal note was sent to the body to which Morocco had sent its letter, in which it maintained that it had no land borders with Spain, while remembered that Rabat was in charge of "denying" the content of it.

Already last Thursday, when the content of the Moroccan letter was known, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, had stressed this point before the Plenary Session of Congress when questioned about it by the PP spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra. "Ceuta and Melilla are Spain, period," she asserted.

In September, Morocco 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 on last June 24.

In their letter, to which Europa Press had access, they clarified "once again" that it is "inaccurate" to refer to "the line of separation between Morocco and Melilla" as the "Spanish-Moroccan border", as the 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".