UK tells Spain any solution to fishing dispute must include Gibraltar government
UK has dismissed a comment by Spain’s Foreign Minister suggesting that Britain and Spain were poised to reach a bilateral solution to the fishing dispute. Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said Spain was open to dialogue and that he and his British counterpart, William Hague, “talk a lot” about many issues, including Gibraltar
“I think I can say that in a very few days we are going to reach a solution that is satisfactory for both kingdoms,” he said during an interview on Spanish television.
But a spokesperson for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on Friday night questioned the Spanish Foreign Minister’s statement and said any solution must involve Gibraltar.
“We are not aware of the solution which Mr Garcia-Margallo referred to in his interview” the spokesperson told the Gibraltar Chronicle.
“Clearly any negotiation or agreement relating to fishing in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters would need to involve Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar who are the authority with jurisdiction under Gibraltar’s Constitution.”
“The United Kingdom is confident of its sovereignty of those waters.”
“We continue to support efforts to establish dialogue on issues of mutual cooperation between Gibraltar, the UK and Spain.”
The Gibraltar Government said it had taken up the Spanish minister’s comments with the FCO and received “a categorical assurance” that there had been no such bilateral discussions or negotiations with Spain relating to Gibraltar.
“This is in keeping with the position repeatedly set out by the UK that it will not enter into a process of sovereignty negotiations with Spain on such Gibraltar matters as referred to by Garcia Margallo,” the Gibraltar Government said in a statement.
“It would therefore appear that Garcia Margallo’s statements are entirely incorrect.”
“Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar nonetheless remains strongly committed - as the United Kingdom has also repeatedly stated it is - to re-establishing the trilateral process of dialogue between Gibraltar, the UK and Spain on issues of mutual cooperation and which in the long term is in the interest of all relevant parties.”
During a wide-ranging interview on Cadena Ser Friday morning, the Spanish Foreign Minister repeated Spain’s often-stated position on the fishing dispute. He said the Guardia Civil would continue to protect Spanish fishermen as they fished “where they have always fished”.
Garcia-Margallo also stressed that Spain and the UK enjoyed good relations and shared many common interests.
“I want to have good relations with every country in the world, and certainly with the United Kingdom,” he said. “We have economic interests in the United Kingdom, many tourists come here.”
“I believe we have to work with the United Kingdom, but that is not to say we have to make concessions over what we consider important. We are open to dialogue.”
The interview came a day after Britain and Spain summoned each other’s respective ambassadors for a dressing down following the latest incidents in the Bay of Gibraltar this week.
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which would make the gibraltans boss/organ grinder of their own future, kinda goes with the whole SELF-DETERMINATION thing.
however just like The Falklands it pays to have big protection :)
And they steal food of tourists reminds me of Le Campora
Always the spanish speaking cultures and the UK!!
Haven't we been here before?
So, my next question is........ When are they going to throw their toys out of the pram ( again ) and close the border?
Probably be stupid enough to something like that, will not stop British tourism of course, but it will slump and they will wind up losing money, when they need it most. I holiday in Spain, but if they do not want my money, then Greece is welcome to it. Another case of the inmates running the asylum. Pathetic, all those Spanish youngsters looking for jobs and they play silly buggers with their futures.
exactly.. Greece is looking favourites for our money next year.
@9 I used to enjoy going to Spain. There's a lovely place down in the south called Tarifa. Handy for Gibraltar as well. But the place is starting to get tyrannical again.
However it will end in Spanish tears, ultimately the ECHR will rule in favour of Gibraltar, the British will enforce territorial integrity, and are in a position to exert considerable economic pressure on Spain “if push comes to shove”.
And Spain already on its knees.
Watch this space.
Send a destroyer/frigate to the area and order it too seize any un-authorised Spanish warship/police vessel it captures in the area.
Overnight the problem would disappear.
What a zany world....Only píracy insidé of Europe.
I díd eagerly wánt to commént to the artícle of “” Horce Racing.....“”
but not opén.
Google Translatíon is mércenary..
I am broke líke British ,so can't úse it.
It's a bit like Mr Muscle calling Mike Tyson scrawny.....
I am not from Argentina but from a more robust country than UK.
The people of Gibraltar have already decided where their future lies.
This is where we stand in the world !
where you people get this is silly,
britain is doing relativly ok,
and when we come out of Europe, and get of that corupt gravy train, and stop bailing out your friends, britain will be even better of than we are now,
besides even if we were going downwards, it would only be the likes of spain and argentina we would land on,
still, again,
if we are broke, what does that make the likes of spain and argentina then.
Britain is broke since long time ago and also going into a new recession.
The fact that UK keeps going by delaying it default by printing money and borrowing from abroad like crazy will not last forever.
Sorry mate but someone has to tell you the bad news...
“if we are broke, what does that make the likes of spain and argentina then.”
Spain is broke, Argentina is not broke anymore since long time ago.
I'm sorry, must have missed that “Britain is broke since long time ago and also going into a new recession” thing.........
and that utter b*ll*cks about “The fact that UK keeps going by delaying it default by printing money and borrowing from abroad like crazy will not last forever”
You don't keep up with current events much do you? The name of the game over here in EnglandLand is cut backs........ It has been ever since Came-moron and his little B*tch Nick Clegg came to power.
Cut backs in spending, that's why the new Aircraft carriers have been delayed and no borrowing!! Just, ( and I going to say something here that you will not understand ) paying back what we owe.
True, maybe the UK is still in recession or heading for a 3rd. but compared with Spain and Argentina ( sorry, do they even have a economy anymore? ) we are in GREAT shape.
He makes statement with no facts other than his hope that somehow Argentina will become a mega power and Britain will default.
I'd say he's got more chance of winning the euro-lottery 15 times in a row than that ever happening LOL
Find whèré i àm from !
You don’t need to be a economy Guru to know that Britain if following the path of Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Island, Italy, etc.
You guys have 11 trillions US dollars debt to be repaid and that is a lot of money to be extracted from a little economy of 2 trillions.
Most of that debt is owe to foreigner lenders and in foreigner currencies so monetary policy will not work.
You have a big deficit in your trade balance in other words you import more of what you export and the gap last time I have checked was more than 150bn at year.
So you have to borrow more to pay imports and the debt grows, grows and grows.
That is one of the reason, you have arrived to such economy mess.
This is what anyone will tell that is a broken economy.
Now you have a large banking sector that still has the ability keep flowing money into your economy system like Island had before its collapse even having AAA rating.
So a little run in one of you banks or a bad rating or whatever and financial tsunami will be knocking at your doors mates.
Like happen with Greece, Spain, Italy, etc.
So be patient because is not your turn yet, “The Market” goes one by one and you are the BIG PIG and now they are entertained cooking the little ones.
@21 Let's see now. Can't speak English, pissed and less broke than Britain. Panama! Not that I care.
@26 You're obviously getting your papers two weeks late. Britain is coming OUT of recession. “Argentina is not broke anymore since long time ago.” If you're not broke, why do you have a “dollar clamp”? Why don't you pay your debts? Why don't you pay to get your 18th century “flagship” out of hock? Why don't you pay to get your 70s rustbucket out of dock? Why don't you use actual money to pay people?
@30 I'm afraid you really don't understand economics. But that's hardly surprising, is it? The only times that argieland has had a reasonable economy is either when the Brits were running it or when things generally were so good that it would have taken a brain-dead 1 year old to mess it up. It's a good job that no-one needs to be an “economy Guru” because you certainly aren't one. You fall more in the “brain-dead” category. If you're being paid, in any way, for making your comments, you should stop taking rewards under false pretences. Now, in order to serve the two purposes of reinforcing our economic viability AND warning you of what you might face, we are still building 2 LARGE aircraft carriers, the remaining FIVE large nuclear-powered submarines, the remaining 80 Typhoon multi-role aircraft, the remaining 12 Voyager MRTTs and we're gearing up for the F-35 Lightnings, the Type 26 frigates, the “Successor” SSBNs, the C3 Global Corvettes plus other miscellaneous “capabilities”. What are you thinking of getting? New elastic bands?
just copied from internet bloggs...
Thanks for displaying to everyone you don't understand monetary policy, not in the slightest.
You are utterly confused by the debt situation as ever, when you say 11bn in debt, well yes it may exist but not in the format you describe.
As for trade deficit, as ever this is how modern economies work in times of recession. You can operate a negative balance if you have money in the bank to do so (which the UK does) and quite frankly a 150bn gap is actually very small for a economy the size of the UK's.
Take some big numbers out of context, spin them and you have some doom and gloom story even if it belies the overall situation.
So 1,000bn is in Gilts (government bonds, low yield) some of which have a very long life (50 years) and 1bn in bank interventions. The 1,000bn in bank interventions is tied to real assets and a return is expected so isn't a debt per se even if it is classed as such (notice I'm using the UK bn standard).
The UK is quite frankly a extraordinarily wealthy nation compared to Argentina.
perhaps you have proof of this debt,
you said on the other blog, britain owes 11 billion,
please can you show the evidence.
The only one that cannot understand the in with Britain is you guys.
11 Trillions (and not bn) is the whole debt what includes Public debt denominated in Pounds and owed to local lenders and the external debt of the public sector (UK govt) plus Privates (Lake Bankers and BM) to foreigner lenders and denominated in foreign currencies (Like US dollars, Euros, Yens, Yuan, etc).
If one of these private banks cannot meet its debt the UK govt will have to intervene (bail out like RBS and NR stuff), like Spain have done with Bankia, like the Irish have done with therir banks, like Greece, etc. else the entire financial sector will collapse together with the whole economy.
If UK refuses to bailout the banks (A possibility but no for UK a banking sector dependent nation) the market will start pressing UK govt even by stopping the lending to the UK govt.
“The 1,000bn in bank interventions is tied to real assets and a return is expected so isn't a debt per se even if it is classed as such”
Only a naive person like you can believe that, that is the way bailouts are selling to the public but as everyone knows banks in trouble are a negative asset because they have nothing to back the amount of money they owe. You need to understand how Fractional banking system works first.
“notice I'm using the UK bn standard”
Well this explains a lot there is not such UK standard to start with else long scale number used everywhere invented by French mathematician.
Since long time ago (1974) in Britain is not used anymore the long scale number instead is used the American version (short scale number expression).
@ briton
I will show the evidence I you can show me the evidence that Zimbabwe owes money.
Argentina has more trade disputes running than any other country in the World; is the World's top protectionist country; is regarded as a pariah state by most international money lenders; will get the Red Card from the IMF for not producing acurate information on growth and inflation; is down in 100th place in the World's Corruption Index sandwiched in between Benin and Burkina Faso.
Argentina is a Banana Republic!
Still you've made alot of assumptions and nearly all of them are entirely incorrect. Given your economic ability you'd fit right in with the INDEC staff.
Keep up the good work!
i'd rather listen to him than all the blase people claiming the Uk can easily handle its debt.
When, at the very minimum of 1 trillion debt, that means every single working person in the UK is £17,000 in debt..and thats the very, very, very lowest figures.
pretty stupid thinking that that isnt a BIG problem...let alone acting like it isnt.
My statements about economy are quite right may be don’t fit your standard indoctrination from the media and the “economist gurus” with diplomas from unis with patronage of the neocons and bankers. But that is another thing.
What logic is that a country or person has to live on debt as a normal standard?
Is that will be the standard wouldn’t be any lender because they also would live in debt.
So lenders promote spending and debt until you reach a situation that you cannot handle your debt and then you become an easy target to be charge to whatever interest they want to keep alive, while sacrificing your assets whatever they are.
Meanwhile you spend they lend and when money become a “scarce commodity” people, companies, etc. will sell them to meet their financial obligations and then again they acts as financiers of the new buyers or they buy for a third of the value those assets.
So from my point of view the Fractional Banking System will have to be abolish and the money supply only will have to be manage for the govt. banks just to have in balance the sufficient amount of money to keep the economy going and expanding.
After all is what money is all about, just a commodity to make easy trade and should be in balance with the economy size.
and prove it.
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