The Minister of Foreign Affairs (MNE) recognized this Monday the “great urgency” of the analysis of the request for Portuguese citizenship submitted by the Israeli hostage of the Islamist Hamas movement, guaranteeing that justice oversight will “speed up the processing”.
“Each application for Portuguese citizenship is an individual case and is considered individually, so there is no general solution on this issue, but it is clear that, given the circumstances, this process is very urgent,” said João Gomes. Cravinho.
Speaking to the Portuguese press at the end of a meeting of European Union (EU) diplomats in Luxembourg, the Portuguese minister noted that this was a “matter of great sensitivity” that the Ministry of Justice was “looking at”. in (…) with all urgency, with all awareness of the delicacy of the matter.”
“I cannot say how long this process takes, but in any case, the process of granting citizenship always consists of several stages. All I can say is that the Department of Justice is looking for ways to speed up the whole process. …processing without obvious risk from a legal point of view,” said João Gomes Craviño.
The Justice Minister today promised “maximum speed” in analyzing the request for Portuguese citizenship of an Israeli hostage of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, stressing that “exceptional situations deserve exceptional solutions.”
“Exceptional situations deserve exceptional solutions. We are currently assessing the situation as quickly as possible in order to be able to respond,” said Catarina Sarmento e Castro, answering a media question about the case in question, on the sidelines of the signing of the protocol. with the Red Cross in Ponta Delgada, Azores.
Without going into details of the case, the government official stressed that it was “the signature of the Ministry of Justice” to “protect the fundamental rights” of citizens.
We are talking about a report published by the newspaper Público about a request for citizenship of an Israeli citizen held hostage by Hamas.
To Luz’s agency, the Justice Department said in a written response that it was “reviewing this request with the necessary urgency, in close coordination with other areas of government, namely foreign affairs, taking into account the context on the ground.”
In the same response, the ministry reminds that “any request for citizenship involves consultation with various organizations.”
The Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel on October 7, firing thousands of rockets and invading armed militants who took more than two hundred hostages.
In response, Israel declared war on Hamas, the movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and which the EU and US classify as terrorist, bombing several of the group’s infrastructure in the enclave. They also imposed a complete blockade of the territory, cutting off the supply of water, fuel and electricity.
The conflict has already caused the death and injury of thousands of military personnel and civilians in both territories.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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