Canary Islands: “We're not an autonomous region, we're a colony”
Monday, September 30, 2013 @ 11:10 AM
THE CANARY Islands' government has applied to the United Nations to be 'de-colonised' from Spain.
Although the archipelago, some 100 kilometres off the coast of Morocco and nearly a four-hour flight from most of the mainland, does not want to become a separate country in the same way as the northern region of Catalunya wishes to do, it says it is fed up with being 'colonised'.
The independent political party Vecinos Unidos Canarios ('Canarian Residents United') has applied to the UN Petitions Committee to be included in its list of 'autonomous de-colonised territories'.
This list includes Gibraltar, which is British-owned, plus French Polynesia, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda and Western Sahara.
According to VUC, Spain has the Canaries 'colonised' under the 'guise' of its being one of the 17 autonomous regions with its own federal government.
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