La Línea says Ministry should make an offer on air terminal land - squabble continues

LA LINEA (Agencies/EuropaSur) In what can only seem like even worse delaying tactics (toll charges being but one), the Councillor for Town Planning,  Francisco Muñiz (PP), told EuropaSur yesterday that it is the airports authority, AENA, which is part of the central government's Ministry of Development, who should make a proposal regarding the municipal land on which the Spanish side of the Gibraltar air terminal is (supposedly?) to be built. Muñiz added that the Council has a "clear willingness" to come to an agreement with AENA. In further comments the councillor added that it is the agency that needs the land, which belongs to the municipality and "is in a magnificent location and very valuable." In this apparently interminable political squabble, the President of the government's Development Commission, Salvador de la Encina (PSOE), insists that it is the Council that should propose a figure with which to begin negotiations and, despite letters crossing between the parties, La Línea has not yet done so. In the meantime, the Gibraltar side of the terminal and all its road connections are well under way.