GIBRALTAR (Agencies/Photo USS Kearsarge by wn.com) The long-held British suspicion that Spain was concerned about the use of Gibraltar by the US Navy was confirmed by a cable from US Ambassador to Madrid Eduardo Aguirre after a meeting with Spain's Minister of Defence, Carme Chacón, after her first meeting with Aguirre after shortly she took office in 2008. The cable added, “On Gibraltar, Chacón was pleased to learn the US-Spanish Permanent Committee would hold an informational meeting on June 17, and yet expressed the Spanish hope US ships would call at Rota whenever possible.” It is not clear what the June meeting was about.
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