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Gibraltar and La Línea jointly celebrate and promote neighbourly relations
To promote good neighbourly relations and closer ties between Gibraltar and La Linea, the Spanish town Mayor, Gemma Araujo, hosted a Gibraltar Day at the official municipal pavilion of the La Linea Fair. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules298 years since the Rock was ceded and Spain is finally starting to get to grips with reality .... it gives hopes for the Falkland islands. In another 120 years Argentina may come to the same conclusions :-)))
Jul 27th, 2011 - 05:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0I really hope we, argies, are not going to need 120 years to come to the same conclusions. I hope is time for Argentina and UK to agree in letting Falkland's self determination.
Jul 27th, 2011 - 05:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Rob for President :-)
Jul 27th, 2011 - 07:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hear, Hear !!
Jul 27th, 2011 - 04:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can somebody please explain how Gibraltar ended up in the South Atlantic, I would like to understand why this newspaper is paying so much attention. Oh wait, this news is at the international section. I bet this must be top news internationally to put the focus on it.
Jul 27th, 2011 - 09:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nuff irony, I understand the cheap attempt of trying to translate what's actually going on in Gibraltar to the Malvinas conflict, a conflict so distant and different.
The editor's of this newspaper might think that the decissions taken by a sold out city mayor of a small towns dictates Spanish position about Gibraltar. You pretend that a party celebration which explicitly sets aside the conflict over soverignity is in fact a twist in Spanish position? How can someone be so delusional to believe that.
Last time I checked the Gibraltar policy was dictated from Madrid, not any slave minded town clerk who owns his place to the badly paid blue collar Spanish workers of La Linea.
This fragile cross border entente will be short lived as soon as the small parties in the coallition in power in the city hall realizes their huge mistake once Andalucia and Spain are won by those who have some respect for their country.
The real town in the area, Algeciras, is ruled by the most vocal and most experienced Spanish politician on any issue refering Gibraltar and its permanent expansionism.
The Moratinos legacy, once proven a failure for Spanish interests, is slowly starting to be put aside by socialists themselves, and will very likely lay in the grass once the center-right takes office.
And believe me, Spain is certainly not Argentina, and Gibraltar not the Falklands, in terms of the amount and extent of measures that can be undertaken to bring those chaps in White Hall to the negotiation table.
Enjoy the wine, the jam, prawns and the music, because the party will soon be over.
soberanista Mercopress is a news agency for mercosur, south américa and south atlantic (not all south atlantic only malvinas)
Jul 27th, 2011 - 10:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0MP is located in Uruguay but paid by british and people of Malvinas
so all the articles here are majority of Malvinas with a probritish point of view, of UK, a country that has nothing to be culturally or economically or in anyway with this region, and in third place sometimes if they have space they write two or three sentences of south américa.
so they write of gibraltar everytime they can in a probritish way to show us how other BOTs of them are doing it.
300th anniversary approaching ..... the party just seems to go on and on :-)
Jul 28th, 2011 - 02:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0And not so many differences. The British tack with Gibraltar is now the one being applied to the Falklands. Gibraltar is independent in all but name. The islander's will be too.
i see difeerences
Jul 28th, 2011 - 03:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0i dont see parties coming with argentina
malvinas issue is lived different here
and we have a strong case
and you say we bother you more jjaajj always playing the victim this squidmillonaires
soberanista - why not write about Gibraltar?
Jul 31st, 2011 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Malen, your a twat if they are showing us a pro-british slant by writing about British territories then why is mercopress marked by the distinct absence of any stories about Bermuda, Caymans, Turks, Montserrat, Sovereign base area Cyprus, Anguilla, Pitcairn, Chagos?!?!?
In fact I see far more stories about Latin America, than about Falklands, UK and Gibraltar combined....my god because they have written more stories about Argentina....they must have a pro Argentinian stance!
malen (#*) said: “malvinas issue is lived different here
Aug 01st, 2011 - 08:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0and we have a strong case”.
Yes, this issue is lived different. The only ones whom still care about it are the ones whom supported military dictatorship and former soldiers sent by them. How strong could be the case when we (Argentina) refuse going to international Courts?
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