Friday, January 27th 2012 - 11:18 UTC

Foreign Office has not discussed Gibraltar with new Spanish government

Foreign Office Ministers have not discussed Gibraltar with the new Spanish Government, a Foreign Office spokesman said on Wednesday.

Garcia Margallo insists on holding bilateral sovereignty talks

Reacting to questions on the Antena 3 interview where Jose Garcia Margallo, Spanish Foreign Minister, had said he had told Foreign Secretary William Hague that on sovereignty and jurisdiction the interlocutors are UK and Spain, the Foreign Office said that the UK position is well known.

“The UK will never enter into arrangements under which the people of Gibraltar would pass under the sovereignty of another State against their wishes. Furthermore, the UK will not enter into a process of sovereignty negotiations with which Gibraltar is not content,” said the FCO.

Garcia Margallo said that if they were going to talk about co-operation “which seems good to me as it favours both sides of the fence (reja) then Spain, UK, the Junta de Andalucía and Gibraltar will be present. That should be the symmetry”.

However “we will progress on that (co-operation) as we progress on sovereignty matters. We are not going to be talking permanently of co-operation if we do not advance on the fundamental issue of sovereignty”.
 

Published in: Politics, International.
Tags: Foreign Office, Jose Garcia-Margallo, Spain.

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1 ChrisR (#) Jan 27th, 2012 - 04:20 pm Report abuse
So he is a lying bastard. He is Spanish after all.
2 briton (#) Jan 27th, 2012 - 07:57 pm Report abuse
and like argentina and malvino
he has nothing, and will get nothing,
just talk .
3 Asdrúbal el Bello (#) Jan 27th, 2012 - 11:31 pm Report abuse
ChrisR. It's nice to see the British sense of humor in action. Lying bastards. I hope it's an affectionate nickname. In any case, you have not seen anything. I can not imagine the fun and intelligent banter that you will occur when the Spanish government begins closing doors. Interesting times come.
4 briton (#) Jan 28th, 2012 - 12:00 am Report abuse
the doors were closed for decades,
and the only thing that ever happend, was the spannish lost out .
so the gates may well close again, and she will lose out again,
simple really .
5 stick up your junta (#) Jan 28th, 2012 - 08:39 am Report abuse
Spanish government begins closing doors

To the job centre?
Spain's unemployment total passes five million
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-16754600
6 ChrisR (#) Jan 28th, 2012 - 10:02 am Report abuse
3 Asdrúbal el Repugnante

You are back, unfortunately.

So I take it you do not agree that this lying bastard does not look like an old Argie: you know, the big, bulbous nose, the stupid look on his face, the lying words out of his mouth?

You seem to be missing the point Repugnante, this pillock is behaving like the CFK govt over the Falklands (there are no Malvinas), you know this for sure: the economy going down the toilet, putting up all the utility prices, lying about the problems, riots in CFK province, etc. And you think they are really worried about the Gibraltar issue? Get real for once.
7 Asdrúbal el Bello (#) Jan 28th, 2012 - 05:05 pm Report abuse
I am also glad to read you, Chris.

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