The strange journey that the Cape Texas warship has taken in waters near the islands remains a mystery. Canarian Coalition has requested information from the State about this erratic movement of the United States Navy logistics ship. He also took the opportunity to remember a historic Canarian demand.
The request for information comes from the nationalist deputy Cristina Valido. According to her, what she experienced with the ship is “the danger of being where we are and of havingr international waters” between the islands. He has especially attributed it to “not having resolved the competitions in our waters”.
place of passage
“Ships often pass even with polluting loads or with dangerous loads without us knowing anything,” the deputy recriminated. For this reason, the request for information focuses on knowing whether the Government of Spain was aware of the ship’s actions. He has also asked for an answer as to why the Canary Islands were not contacted if they knew.
“From there we will talk about how to address this situation in which these types of ships pass along our coast, through our islands, without the Canary Islands knowing what we are seeing at sea, something really striking that one cannot imagine anywhere else.” territory”.
Eternal claim
Canarian Coalition is one of the parties that has most frequently claimed water sovereignty, although it is a demand that has been made by all parties, except Vox. Last year, without going any further, the Parliament of the Canary Islands asked to “defend the status that the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands already has recognized in the Statute of Autonomy as an archipelago.”
He International Sea Treaty determines that an archipelago is an “intrinsic geographic, economic and political entity.” However, it is not the same as an archipelagic State, which would have the powers of a State.
Sovereignty
This would have sovereignty over all the waters that the archipelago would cover and not just an extension beyond the island, as happens in the Canary Islands. The islands could not, according to the treaty, have their own territorial sea or their exclusive economic zone being considered an autonomous community.
But the Law of the Sea does not prohibit it either. Other archipelagos that are part of a State have established perimeter baselines to measure maritime spaces as Azoresthe Islands Faroe or the Galapagos.
This possibility of establishing a maritime platform that encompasses baselines that join the extreme points of the islands is where the Canarian request moves. Within that perimeter the archipelago would have sovereignty over its waters and would know what type of ships sail through the Canary Islands.
