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  • Malaise.Page demands that Spain issue a diplomatic complaint to Turkey after the 'theft' of its respirators

The decision by Turkey to requisition hundreds of ventilators for critically ill patients with coronaviruses bought and paid for by several communities (Castilla-La Mancha, Navarra and Catalonia) has caused the complaint and the discomfort of the President of the Government of Navarra , María Chivite, or the Castilian Manchego Emiliano García Page. However, Spain has chosen to raise the tone against the Turkish government, avoiding a diplomatic conflict, to try to recover the more than 150 "stolen" respirators, as defined by Castilla-La Mancha.

Thus, amid requests from Chivite and Page to raise the necessary diplomatic complaints, the Foreign Ministry is trying to throw water on the fire to speed up the options to recover the medical equipment. Hence, the department headed by Arancha González Laya is betting on highlighting that Turkey has sent "this week a significant donation of medical supplies to Spain" instead of ugly its decision to requisition the respirators to use them to care for the sick in this country.

"Spain knows the restrictions imposed by Turkey for the exit of medical devices due to the worrying evolution of the pandemic in that country and the decision to deny all licenses for the export of medical devices, including those destined for countries of the European Union", Foreign Affairs notes that this Saturday has received public support from the government of Castilla-La Mancha.

"We have been with this matter for three weeks and I only have words of thanks for the ministers Laya and Illa, with whom I speak more than once a day," said the Minister of Health of the Government of Castilla-La Mancha, Jesús Fernández Sanz , who has described as "excellent" the efforts of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Health.

A staging of closing ranks just hours after the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, had demanded that the Government of Spain issue a formal diplomatic complaint to Turkey for what sources of the regional Executive consider "a Stole". Reduce tension and show unity to try to convince the Turkish government.

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