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PM Cameron reaffirms support for Tripartite Forum Dialogue in Gibraltar

British Foreign Secretary William Hague

Newly appointed British Foreign Secretary William Hague has declared that the Conservative Government’s position on the Gibraltar issue “is well known and has not changed.”

In a statement to the Spanish press, Mr Hague who was attending an EU-Latinamerican –Caribbean leaders’ summit in Madrid, said that Prime Minister David Cameron will continue to support the Tripartite Forum of Dialogue between UK, Gibraltar and Spain.

Meanwhile Morocco’s Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi, sensing the weakness of the Spanish government of President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has reopened Rabat’s long standing claim over the sovereignty of the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.

Speaking in the Moroccan parliament on Tuesday, Abbas el Fassi called on Spain to establish a process of dialogue with Morocco, “to end the occupation of the colonies of Ceuta and Melilla.”

“We call on our Spanish friends to participate in dialogue with us to end the occupation of these two Moroccan cities as part of a framework that looks at the future”, said the Moroccan minister.