Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Spain will not negotiate sovereignty with Gibraltar

SPAIN/UK/GIBRALTAR (Agencies) The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trinidad Jiménez, said at a Senate control session today that Spain will not negotiate with Gibraltar over sovereignty because "the only two fundamental parties are Spain and Britain." Responding to a question from the PSOE spokesman on the subject, Senator José Carracao, she added that this had always been Spain's position on the subject, and would continue to be so. She nevertheless defended the continuation of the Tripartite Forum, which "has created numerous advances in terms of cooperation." Chief Minister Peter Caruana said recently that the Forum was 'useless', according to media reports.(The photo is of a street in Torrijos, Toledo, one of many similarly named streets in the country.)

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