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Tripartite talks next July: Gibraltar/Spain/UK
Middle Ages entrance to Gibraltar found.

Tripartite talks next July: Gibraltar/Spain/UK

Faro, the small tourist resort on the southern coast of Portugal will be the location for the next round of the Trilateral Dialogue Forum between the Governments of the United Kingdom, Gibraltar and Spain next July 8/9, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle. A Gibraltar Government spokesman said they will be hosting this round of the talks and making the organisational arrangements. It is geographical proximity that is behind the choice of venue. Meanwhile Gibraltar Chief Minister Mr. Caruana has said that to expect the physical presence of a Spanish Government delegation in Gibraltar at present is "wishful thinking." A Convent Place spokesman said: "There has been much ill-informed media speculation recently about the talks having been postponed for one reason or another. This is not true. No earlier date for this round had ever been fixed or moved for any reason. Dates for talks are set by the three parties in consultation with each other. No date in June was possible for all three parties for a variety of different reasons affecting each of them." Meanwhile speaking to GBC, Mr Caruana said it had only been a few months since Gibraltar had achieved a trilateral discussion process for the first time with Britain and Spain "where the three parties take part on the same basis." He said that to expect to persuade the upper echelons of the Spanish Government to physically come to Gibraltar to engage in that process was wishful thinking. Mr Caruana added that the strategy was to achieve this in the not too distant future "and it is early days for that." A Gibraltar Government spokesman confirmed that the participants together with the Chief Minister will be the same as in Malaga - Spain's director general for Europe Jose Pons and UK Foreign Office director for Europe Dominic Chilcott.

Middle Ages entrance to Gibraltar found

The Gate of Granada is the latest local major archaeological discovery providing another piece to Medieval Gibraltar. The Gibraltar Museum team has discovered the pillars of the Gate of Granada, the main entrance to the city of Gibraltar at the time of the Merinid occupation of Gibraltar in the 14th century built some time after 1333. Heritage Minister Clive Beltran described it the most important urban archaeological discovery in Gibraltar in the last seven years. Professor Clive Finlayson, stated it made Gibraltar, in terms of archaeology remaining, the most important site of that dynasty anywhere in the world.