The government delegate in Cantabria, Pedro Casares, has extolled that Cantabria is a “people of solidarity and justice”, with citizens “sensitive” to the “massacre” of the people of Palestine to which “no one can look the other way”, and also in the reception of unaccompanied migrant minors who will begin to arrive in the region after “having fled misery, wars and hunger”.
Casares said this Thursday after the meeting he had with the Bishop of the Diocese of Santander, Arturo Ros, with whom he addressed the situation in Palestine, the migratory crisis affecting the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla and also the need to promote social “coexistence”.
The delegate has stressed the reception of migrant minors by the Autonomous Communities and has pointed out that the Canary Islands and the autonomous cities “can no longer endure the capacity of reception” and, therefore, has claimed to be “in solidarity and fair with the children who seek to be received”.
“Let us make that welcome in our land, in the people of Cantabria, to give them hope and to give them a future they do not have. They have fled their countries because of misery, wars, hunger… and Spain is a host country, but it has also historically been an emitter. Now it’s up to us to be a land of refuge,” said Casares.
In addition to addressing the reception of migrant minors in Cantabria, the delegate and the bishop also spoke about the conflicts that affect the world, with special attention to the “barbarity suffered by the people of Gaza” but also the “already long war” in Ukraine. And both have called for “peace and understanding” and have set out to work together for “coexistence.”
Casares stressed that his meeting with the Bishop of Santander is another sign of his commitment to “dialogue” and the “agreement” that he wants to promote from the Delegation of the Government of Spain in Cantabria.
“This Delegation is going to have its doors open to meet all the social, political, economic, cultural, scientific and also religious agents and actors who make community, who are part of Cantabria,” he said.
For his part, the Bishop of Santander highlighted the “cordial” meeting with the government delegate in which they discussed “some issues” and stressed that both “converge on many things that are significant”.
“We are willing to walk together in those things that we can do for the good of Cantabria, which will always be for the good of all,” added Arturo Ros.