Now, this news item will show you just how the Spanish politicians (both from the ruling PSOE and the falangist PP) are nothing but a team of hypocrites.
This is what Middle East Online tells us:
Spanish parliamentarians endorse sovereignty of Spain over north African enclaves.
MADRID - Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos called Tuesday for a "just and definitive" settlement for Western Sahara based on the will of the people, diplomatic sources said.
Moratinos and Peter van Walsum, UN envoy for the former Spanish colony, met for some 45 minutes before the latter prepared to head for talks in Paris and Washington, having already toured Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania, as well as Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, southwestern Algeria.
Van Walsum told Moratinos that the Polisario Front and Algeria were backing the Baker Plan, based on five years of autonomy for Western Sahara, annexed by Morocco in 1975.
After that period the plan, named after former US secretary of state James Baker, envisages a referendum on self-determination.
So, Madrid refuses to recognize the right of Euskal Herria and Catalunya to its self-determination, but on the international arena it sides with those who want for Morocco to let go of Western Sahara, talk about double standard.
But Madrid does not stop there, check out the second part of the same note:
Meanwhile, Spanish parliamentarians Tuesday endorsed the sovereignty of Spain over the country's north African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.
The vote, which saw the conservative opposition Popular Party join the ruling Socialists, but Catalan and Basque nationalist groups vote against the motion, came after the enclaves have been targeted in recent weeks by thousands of sub-Saharan African immigrants seeking to reach Spanish soil.
Several hundred made it across border razor wire fencing but 14 died in the process.
Morocco has in the past laid claim to the enclaves, each of which has a population of around 60,000, but they have been Spanish for some 500 years and the debate concluded that "the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla form an unquestionable part of the Spanish nation."
There you have it, as I said it before, Spaniards, no matter what political party they vote for or belong to, tend to cling to their colonialist past, what a shame, because in the mean time, they suffocate other nations still under their boot as a result of the international community's lack of interest in defending the most basic human rights of those who today yearn for independence.
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