The European Union and External Action Advisor, Jaume Duch, He made his debut this Friday in the Parliament of Catalonia explaining the guidelines that he wants to develop in his department during the legislature. “Basically”, the idea is to continue the policy carried out by his predecessor in power, Meritxell Serret (ERC), co-protagonist in 2017 of the “process” when he was part of the government of Carles Puidgemont (Juntas): to make Catalan official in the European Union, to expand the delegations of the Generalitat, the so-called Catalan “embassies” and, among other things, to approve a foreign action body, pending due to the call for elections in May.
However, the presence of the advisor to the European Union and the Foreign Action Commission, beyond the presentation of the policies to be carried out in the coming years, served to establish the position of the government of Salvador Illa in a current issue such as the war conflict that Israel maintains with Gaza and Lebanon. Asked about the possibility of opening an “embassy” in Tel Aviv (Israel), Duch stressed that “this is not the time”, indicating that the situation in Gaza, due to Israel’s military action, is not only “a conflict”, as the Junts spokesman had described it, and described it as “a war” and “in part, surely, also as a genocide”.
Although the Minister of Foreign Affairs left to Parliament the position of “Catalonia” in some aspects of international politics, he spoke on this subject, which was pressured by the spokesmen of the ERC, the Communes and the CUP to make it possible. therefore. But he did not want to comment on the situation in Venezuela, a silence that the PP representative criticized him for. In this sense, the regional councilor announced that the Generalitat will expand the “economic contribution” allocated to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Regarding the work for the next four years, Duch reiterated that what was agreed with ERC, above all, and with the commons, will be carried out so that these groups give their support to the investiture of Illa. He also committed to working “tirelessly” to make Catalan official in the European Union, something that all member countries must be convinced of; for “Consolidate and expand” delegations abroad and process the law so that the Generalitat has a foreign action body, which would become a network of Catalan para-diplomatic officials.
