The president will meet with the president of the ECHR and proclaim that
"individual rights, public liberties and the rights of minorities are guaranteed"
The president of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, will be this Thursday in
the French town of Strasbourg where he will make an official visit to two
fundamental institutions in Europe, such as the Council of Europe and the European
Court of Human Rights (ECHR). According to reports from Moncloa, Sanchez is
the first head of the Spanish Executive who visits this court.
The Spanish president plans to meet with the
president of the ECHR, Guido Raimondi, and to let him be assured of
"Spain's respect for its jurisprudence", as well as of "the
Government's constant support for the promotion of human rights." He is
also expected to declare that his government has made human rights "a
priority from the first day, restoring universal health, defending gender
equality, endowing again with funds the Law of Dependence, and advancing in those
rights known as fourth generation".
Message
Sánchez will transfer to the president of the court, Guido Raimondi,
"Spain's respect for its jurisprudence" and "the government's
constant support for the promotion of human rights"
Sanchez will also deliver a speech before the
Committee of Ambassadors of the Council of Europe, which represents 47
countries across the continent, and will point out that the "essence of current
Spain" is "to be a rule of law, in which individual rights, public
liberties and minority rights are guaranteed and protected".
The agenda for Thursday will be completed with a
meeting with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, the Norwegian
Thorbjorn Jagland, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly, the Swiss
Liliane Maury Pasquier, and the President of the Congress of Local and Regional
Powers, the Swedish Anders Knape.
The visit to the ECHR takes place a week before the
trial of the procés begins. The
defenses of the pro-independence leaders prosecuted have already advanced their
intention to go to the aforementioned court in the event that the sentences are
condemnatory. The independence movement has questioned the guarantees of the
judicial process against the leaders of the 1-O and has stressed more than once
that they expect the European courts to agree with them.
In recent weeks, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Secretariat
of Global Spain, has launched an international campaign to improve the image of
Spain Abroad and counteract the "distortions" and "attempts to
discredit" which, in the opinion of the department headed by Josep
Borrell, come especially from several pro-independence sectors.
The last instance
This is the court to which the defenses of the independence leaders have
already announced that they will appeal after the trial of the 'procés'
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